[PATCH 02/10] mailbox: Enable BCM2835 mailbox support

[Eric Anholt]

Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> writes:

> On 03/02/2015 01:54 PM, Eric Anholt wrote:
>> From: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak at v3.sk>
>> 
>> Implement BCM2835 mailbox support as a device registered with the
>> general purpose mailbox framework. Implementation based on commits by
>> Lubomir Rintel [1], Suman Anna and Jassi Brar [2] on which to base the
>> implementation.
>
>> diff --git a/drivers/mailbox/bcm2835-mailbox.c b/drivers/mailbox/bcm2835-mailbox.c
>
>> +/* Mailboxes */
>> +#define ARM_0_MAIL0	0x00
>> +#define ARM_0_MAIL1	0x20
>> +
>> +/*
>> + * Mailbox registers. We basically only support mailbox 0 & 1. We
>> + * deliver to the VC in mailbox 1, it delivers to us in mailbox 0. See
>> + * BCM2835-ARM-Peripherals.pdf section 1.3 for an explanation about
>> + * the placement of memory barriers.
>> + */
>> +#define MAIL0_RD	(ARM_0_MAIL0 + 0x00)
>> +#define MAIL0_POL	(ARM_0_MAIL0 + 0x10)
>> +#define MAIL0_STA	(ARM_0_MAIL0 + 0x18)
>> +#define MAIL0_CNF	(ARM_0_MAIL0 + 0x1C)
>> +#define MAIL1_WRT	(ARM_0_MAIL1 + 0x00)
>
> That implies there are more mailboxes. I wonder if we should
> parameterize which to use via some DT properties? I guess we can defer
> that though; we can default to the current values and add properties
> later if we want to use something else.

BCM2835-ARM-Peripherals.pdf:

"Default the interrupts from doorbell 0,1 and mailbox 0 go to the ARM
this means that these resources should be written by the GPU and read by
the ARM. The opposite holds for doorbells 2, 3 and mailbox 1."

I don't see any references to more mailboxes than 0 and 1.
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