[PATCH v7 0/3] Adding brcmstb-hwspinlock support
Florian Fainelli
florian.fainelli at broadcom.com
Thu Aug 13 16:57:58 PDT 2026
On 8/13/26 12:25, Kamal Dasu wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 2, 2026 at 11:39 PM Florian Fainelli
> <florian.fainelli at broadcom.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Bjorn, Baolin,
>>
>> On 4/27/2026 1:12 PM, Kamal Dasu wrote:
>>> This series adds hardware semaphore support for Broadcom set-top SoCs
>>> via the generic hwspinlock framework.
>>>
>>> The semaphore registers live in the sundry block; the DT binding
>>> describes only the semaphore register range. The compatible is
>>> brcm,bcm7038-sun-top-ctrl-semaphore (BCM7038 is where this block first
>>> appeared on set-top chips).
>>>
>>> The driver has been tested built-in and as a module.
>>
>> Is there anything else you would want to see being done differently here
>> or is this ready for being merged into your tree?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> --
>> Florian
>>
>
> Florian,
>
> Since there hasn't been a response from the hwspinlock maintainers to
> your ping from May, and given that:
>
> Krzysztof reviewed the DT bindings (Reviewed-by),
> The series is self-contained under Broadcom STB platform code and has
> no core framework changes,
>
> Could you please take this series through your Broadcom SoC tree for
> the next merge window?
I want to give Bjorn and Baolin a chance to respond, but would otherwise
have to seek help from the ARM SoCs maintainers in order to get these
patches moving forward.
--
Florian
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