Re: [PATCH 02/22] dt-bindings: Add bindings for Keem Bay IPC driver

[mark gross <mgross@linux.intel.com>]

On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 10:01:52AM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 02:34:51PM -0800, mgross@linux.intel.com wrote:
> > From: Daniele Alessandrelli <daniele.alessandrelli@intel.com>
> > 
> > Add DT binding documentation for the Intel Keem Bay IPC driver, which
> > enables communication between the Computing Sub-System (CSS) and the
> > Multimedia Sub-System (MSS) of the Intel Movidius SoC code named Keem
> > Bay.
> > 
> > Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org
> > Reviewed-by: Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Daniele Alessandrelli <daniele.alessandrelli@intel.com>
> > ---
> >  .../bindings/soc/intel/intel,keembay-ipc.yaml | 63 +++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 63 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/intel/intel,keembay-ipc.yaml
> > 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/intel/intel,keembay-ipc.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/intel/intel,keembay-ipc.yaml
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 000000000000..6e21c54d8f34
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/intel/intel,keembay-ipc.yaml
> > @@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
> > +# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause)
> > +# Copyright (C) 2020 Intel Corporation
> > +%YAML 1.2
> > +---
> > +$id: "http://devicetree.org/schemas/soc/intel/intel,keembay-ipc.yaml#"
> > +$schema: "http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#"
> > +
> > +title: Keem Bay IPC
> > +
> > +maintainers:
> > +  - Daniele Alessandrelli <daniele.alessandrelli@intel.com>
> > +
> > +description:
> > +  The Keem Bay IPC driver enables Inter-Processor Communication (IPC) with the
> > +  Visual Processor Unit (VPU) embedded in the Intel Movidius SoC code named
> > +  Keem Bay.
> 
> Sounds like a mailbox. 
Its a multi-channel mailbox like thing with priority channel support.

> 
> What's the relationship between this and the xlink thing?
Xlink is a SW abstraction to allow multiple user access to the VPU as well as
enabling use cases where a Keem Bay is used as an accelerator add in card as
well as a simple SBC type of design.  The xlink stuff sits on top of the IPC
stuff.

--mark