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SubjectRe: [RFC 0/7] Qualcomm SMEM, SMD, RPM and regulators
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On Sep 29, 2014, at 7:34 PM, Bjorn Andersson <Bjorn.Andersson@sonymobile.com> wrote:

> All Qualcomm platforms implements a shared heap among the processors in the
> SoC, used for sharing data with other parts of the system.
>
> One consumer of items from this heap is the "Shared Memory Driver", a ring
> buffer based point-to-point communication mechanism used to send either stream
> or packet based data to remote processors.
>
> Starting with 8x74 this system is used to talk to the Resource Power Manager
> (RPM), a power efficient "coprocessor" with responsibility of aggregate votes
> from the various systems in the SoC related to regulators, clocks and bus
> frequencies.
>
> The PMIC regulators and root clocks in these platforms are only accessible via
> the RPM, so to get access to these we need the full chain of smem, smd, rpm and
> a regulator driver implemented. And that is exactly what this series provides.
>
>
> A key outstanding question is where in the tree we should put the
> implementation, for now I dropped them in drivers/soc/qcom but that's only
> because I don't know where to put it otherwise. I have not found any equivalent
> of the SMEM driver, SMD resembles mailbox and rpmsg - but comments in that
> patch on why it's neither.
>
> RPM is a mfd and regulator is a regulator :)

I still don’t see why RPM support for either A-family or B-family should exist in MFD vis drivers/soc/qcom. What benefit is there in putting this in MFD?

I think both A and B-family support should be in drivers/soc/qcom for the current time being until we determine there is some framework that makes more sense in the future. I almost see RPM more like a bus controller than anything else. Something like an I2C bus controller that than has some set of devices off of that bus.

- k

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