[RFC] mailbox: Add Broadcom BCM2835 mailbox driver

Stephen Warren swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Mon May 13 12:09:57 EDT 2013


On 05/12/2013 12:59 PM, Simon Arlott wrote:
> 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.

The two "other drivers"; I assume one of those is Lubomir's, and the
other is the downstream driver? Or are there multiple re-implementations
beyond Lubomir's?



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