Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH V9 2/2] mailbox: introduce ARM SMC based mailbox | From | Florian Fainelli <> | Date | Thu, 26 Sep 2019 19:39:26 -0700 |
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On 9/24/2019 7:09 PM, Peng Fan wrote: > From: Peng Fan <peng.fan@nxp.com> > > This mailbox driver implements a mailbox which signals transmitted data > via an ARM smc (secure monitor call) instruction. The mailbox receiver > is implemented in firmware and can synchronously return data when it > returns execution to the non-secure world again. > An asynchronous receive path is not implemented. > This allows the usage of a mailbox to trigger firmware actions on SoCs > which either don't have a separate management processor or on which such > a core is not available. A user of this mailbox could be the SCP > interface. > > Modified from Andre Przywara's v2 patch > https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/812999/ > > Cc: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com> > Signed-off-by: Peng Fan <peng.fan@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Thanks for your persistence working on this! -- Florian
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