[PATCH RFC] dt-bindings: arm: keystone: add boot_* mailboxes
Anshul Dalal
anshuld at ti.com
Tue Nov 11 21:49:19 PST 2025
On Tue Nov 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM IST, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 11/11/2025 11:37, Anshul Dalal wrote:
>> The bootloader on K3 devices makes use of mailboxes as per the ROM spec
>> which might be different than one's available to the kernel (firmware
>> spec).
>
> Why is this RFC? You don't expect review?
>
Oh my bad, I forgot to reset the b4 prefix. This patch isn't meant to be
an RFC.
I will incorporate rest of your feedback as well and post a v2.
Thanks for the review!
Anshul
>>
>> Therefore, this patch adds the missing mailbox entries to the DT binding
>> to represent the mailboxes exposed by the hardware during boot for the
>> purpose of loading the firmware.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Anshul Dalal <anshuld at ti.com>
>> ---
>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/keystone/ti,sci.yaml | 10 +++++++++-
>> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/keystone/ti,sci.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/keystone/ti,sci.yaml
>> index 25a2b42105e541cb3c8ad12a0dfec1af038fa907..b5f48647a0f09bb930f052ea0f84a78525c925eb 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/keystone/ti,sci.yaml
>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/keystone/ti,sci.yaml
>> @@ -51,15 +51,23 @@ properties:
>> minItems: 1
>>
>> mbox-names:
>> + minItems: 2
>> + maxItems: 6
>> description: |
>> Specifies the mailboxes used to communicate with TI-SCI Controller
>> - made available from TI-SCI controller.
>> + made available from TI-SCI controller. All boot_* mailboxes are used by
>> + the first stage bootloader to load firmware for the device.
>
> Description does not go to mbox-names, but to mboxes.
>
>> items:
>> - const: rx
>> - const: tx
>> + - const: notify
>> + - const: boot_rx
>> + - const: boot_tx
>> + - const: boot_notify
>>
>> mboxes:
>> minItems: 2
>> + maxItems: 6
>
> You need to list the items instead.
>
>>
>> ti,host-id:
>> $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
>
> You should update the example so it will be complete.
>
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof
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