[RFC] mailbox: Add Broadcom BCM2835 mailbox driver

Simon Arlott simon at fire.lp0.eu
Sun May 12 14:59:24 EDT 2013


On 11/05/13 05:41, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 04/19/2013 12:51 PM, Simon Arlott wrote:
>> On 17/04/13 13:56, Lubomir Rintel wrote:
>>> Hello!
>>>
>>> This adds a driver for mailbox IPC mechanism present on Broadcom
>>> BCM2835 SoC, used in Raspberry Pi and Roku 2 devices.
>> 
>> I already wrote a driver for this and other devices 11 months ago:
>> 
>> https://github.com/lp0/linux/commit/917bdfc3045151cda896bf0cbf1542340892f58d
> 
> Lubomir, I assume this patch is intended as a submission for upstream?
> You should probably also Cc linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org on all
> patches destined for upstream.

Note: my driver supports more than one concurrent message per channel,
which neither of the other drivers do.

-- 
Simon Arlott



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