From: Anup Patel <apatel@ventanamicro.com>
To: "Michael Turquette" <mturquette@baylibre.com>,
"Stephen Boyd" <sboyd@kernel.org>,
"Rob Herring" <robh@kernel.org>,
"Krzysztof Kozlowski" <krzk+dt@kernel.org>,
"Conor Dooley" <conor+dt@kernel.org>,
"Jassi Brar" <jassisinghbrar@gmail.com>,
"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
"Mika Westerberg" <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>,
"Andy Shevchenko" <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
"Linus Walleij" <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
"Bartosz Golaszewski" <brgl@bgdev.pl>,
"Uwe Kleine-König" <ukleinek@kernel.org>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>,
Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>, Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
Sunil V L <sunilvl@ventanamicro.com>,
Rahul Pathak <rpathak@ventanamicro.com>,
Leyfoon Tan <leyfoon.tan@starfivetech.com>,
Atish Patra <atish.patra@linux.dev>,
Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com>,
Samuel Holland <samuel.holland@sifive.com>,
Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>,
linux-clk@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Anup Patel <apatel@ventanamicro.com>,
Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
Subject: [PATCH v7 01/24] dt-bindings: mailbox: Add bindings for RPMI shared memory transport
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2025 10:43:22 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250702051345.1460497-2-apatel@ventanamicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250702051345.1460497-1-apatel@ventanamicro.com>
Add device tree bindings for the common RISC-V Platform Management
Interface (RPMI) shared memory transport as a mailbox controller.
Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <apatel@ventanamicro.com>
---
.../mailbox/riscv,rpmi-shmem-mbox.yaml | 124 ++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 124 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/riscv,rpmi-shmem-mbox.yaml
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/riscv,rpmi-shmem-mbox.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/riscv,rpmi-shmem-mbox.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..3aabc52a0c03
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/riscv,rpmi-shmem-mbox.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause)
+%YAML 1.2
+---
+$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/mailbox/riscv,rpmi-shmem-mbox.yaml#
+$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
+
+title: RISC-V Platform Management Interface (RPMI) shared memory mailbox
+
+maintainers:
+ - Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
+
+description: |
+ The RISC-V Platform Management Interface (RPMI) [1] defines a common shared
+ memory based RPMI transport. This RPMI shared memory transport integrates as
+ mailbox controller in the SBI implementation or supervisor software whereas
+ each RPMI service group is mailbox client in the SBI implementation and
+ supervisor software.
+
+ ===========================================
+ References
+ ===========================================
+
+ [1] RISC-V Platform Management Interface (RPMI) v1.0 (or higher)
+ https://github.com/riscv-non-isa/riscv-rpmi/releases
+
+properties:
+ compatible:
+ const: riscv,rpmi-shmem-mbox
+
+ reg:
+ minItems: 2
+ items:
+ - description: A2P request queue base address
+ - description: P2A acknowledgment queue base address
+ - description: P2A request queue base address
+ - description: A2P acknowledgment queue base address
+ - description: A2P doorbell address
+
+ reg-names:
+ minItems: 2
+ items:
+ - const: a2p-req
+ - const: p2a-ack
+ - enum: [ p2a-req, a2p-doorbell ]
+ - const: a2p-ack
+ - const: a2p-doorbell
+
+ interrupts:
+ maxItems: 1
+ description:
+ The RPMI shared memory transport supports P2A doorbell as a wired
+ interrupt and this property specifies the interrupt source.
+
+ msi-parent:
+ description:
+ The RPMI shared memory transport supports P2A doorbell as a system MSI
+ and this property specifies the target MSI controller.
+
+ riscv,slot-size:
+ $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
+ minimum: 64
+ description:
+ Power-of-2 RPMI slot size of the RPMI shared memory transport.
+
+ riscv,a2p-doorbell-value:
+ $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
+ default: 0x1
+ description:
+ Value written to the 32-bit A2P doorbell register.
+
+ riscv,p2a-doorbell-sysmsi-index:
+ $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
+ description:
+ The RPMI shared memory transport supports P2A doorbell as a system MSI
+ and this property specifies system MSI index to be used for configuring
+ the P2A doorbell MSI.
+
+ "#mbox-cells":
+ const: 1
+ description:
+ The first cell specifies RPMI service group ID.
+
+required:
+ - compatible
+ - reg
+ - reg-names
+ - riscv,slot-size
+ - "#mbox-cells"
+
+anyOf:
+ - required:
+ - interrupts
+ - required:
+ - msi-parent
+
+additionalProperties: false
+
+examples:
+ - |
+ // Example 1 (RPMI shared memory with only 2 queues):
+ mailbox@10080000 {
+ compatible = "riscv,rpmi-shmem-mbox";
+ reg = <0x10080000 0x10000>,
+ <0x10090000 0x10000>;
+ reg-names = "a2p-req", "p2a-ack";
+ msi-parent = <&imsic_mlevel>;
+ riscv,slot-size = <64>;
+ #mbox-cells = <1>;
+ };
+ - |
+ // Example 2 (RPMI shared memory with only 4 queues):
+ mailbox@10001000 {
+ compatible = "riscv,rpmi-shmem-mbox";
+ reg = <0x10001000 0x800>,
+ <0x10001800 0x800>,
+ <0x10002000 0x800>,
+ <0x10002800 0x800>,
+ <0x10003000 0x4>;
+ reg-names = "a2p-req", "p2a-ack", "p2a-req", "a2p-ack", "a2p-doorbell";
+ msi-parent = <&imsic_mlevel>;
+ riscv,slot-size = <64>;
+ riscv,a2p-doorbell-value = <0x00008000>;
+ #mbox-cells = <1>;
+ };
--
2.43.0
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Anup Patel <apatel@ventanamicro.com>
To: "Michael Turquette" <mturquette@baylibre.com>,
"Stephen Boyd" <sboyd@kernel.org>,
"Rob Herring" <robh@kernel.org>,
"Krzysztof Kozlowski" <krzk+dt@kernel.org>,
"Conor Dooley" <conor+dt@kernel.org>,
"Jassi Brar" <jassisinghbrar@gmail.com>,
"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
"Mika Westerberg" <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>,
"Andy Shevchenko" <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
"Linus Walleij" <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
"Bartosz Golaszewski" <brgl@bgdev.pl>,
"Uwe Kleine-König" <ukleinek@kernel.org>
Cc: Anup Patel <apatel@ventanamicro.com>,
devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com>,
Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>,
Atish Patra <atish.patra@linux.dev>,
Leyfoon Tan <leyfoon.tan@starfivetech.com>,
Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Samuel Holland <samuel.holland@sifive.com>,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>,
Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>,
linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
linux-clk@vger.kernel.org,
Rahul Pathak <rpathak@ventanamicro.com>
Subject: [PATCH v7 01/24] dt-bindings: mailbox: Add bindings for RPMI shared memory transport
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2025 10:43:22 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250702051345.1460497-2-apatel@ventanamicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250702051345.1460497-1-apatel@ventanamicro.com>
Add device tree bindings for the common RISC-V Platform Management
Interface (RPMI) shared memory transport as a mailbox controller.
Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <apatel@ventanamicro.com>
---
.../mailbox/riscv,rpmi-shmem-mbox.yaml | 124 ++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 124 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/riscv,rpmi-shmem-mbox.yaml
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/riscv,rpmi-shmem-mbox.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/riscv,rpmi-shmem-mbox.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..3aabc52a0c03
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/riscv,rpmi-shmem-mbox.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause)
+%YAML 1.2
+---
+$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/mailbox/riscv,rpmi-shmem-mbox.yaml#
+$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
+
+title: RISC-V Platform Management Interface (RPMI) shared memory mailbox
+
+maintainers:
+ - Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
+
+description: |
+ The RISC-V Platform Management Interface (RPMI) [1] defines a common shared
+ memory based RPMI transport. This RPMI shared memory transport integrates as
+ mailbox controller in the SBI implementation or supervisor software whereas
+ each RPMI service group is mailbox client in the SBI implementation and
+ supervisor software.
+
+ ===========================================
+ References
+ ===========================================
+
+ [1] RISC-V Platform Management Interface (RPMI) v1.0 (or higher)
+ https://github.com/riscv-non-isa/riscv-rpmi/releases
+
+properties:
+ compatible:
+ const: riscv,rpmi-shmem-mbox
+
+ reg:
+ minItems: 2
+ items:
+ - description: A2P request queue base address
+ - description: P2A acknowledgment queue base address
+ - description: P2A request queue base address
+ - description: A2P acknowledgment queue base address
+ - description: A2P doorbell address
+
+ reg-names:
+ minItems: 2
+ items:
+ - const: a2p-req
+ - const: p2a-ack
+ - enum: [ p2a-req, a2p-doorbell ]
+ - const: a2p-ack
+ - const: a2p-doorbell
+
+ interrupts:
+ maxItems: 1
+ description:
+ The RPMI shared memory transport supports P2A doorbell as a wired
+ interrupt and this property specifies the interrupt source.
+
+ msi-parent:
+ description:
+ The RPMI shared memory transport supports P2A doorbell as a system MSI
+ and this property specifies the target MSI controller.
+
+ riscv,slot-size:
+ $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
+ minimum: 64
+ description:
+ Power-of-2 RPMI slot size of the RPMI shared memory transport.
+
+ riscv,a2p-doorbell-value:
+ $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
+ default: 0x1
+ description:
+ Value written to the 32-bit A2P doorbell register.
+
+ riscv,p2a-doorbell-sysmsi-index:
+ $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
+ description:
+ The RPMI shared memory transport supports P2A doorbell as a system MSI
+ and this property specifies system MSI index to be used for configuring
+ the P2A doorbell MSI.
+
+ "#mbox-cells":
+ const: 1
+ description:
+ The first cell specifies RPMI service group ID.
+
+required:
+ - compatible
+ - reg
+ - reg-names
+ - riscv,slot-size
+ - "#mbox-cells"
+
+anyOf:
+ - required:
+ - interrupts
+ - required:
+ - msi-parent
+
+additionalProperties: false
+
+examples:
+ - |
+ // Example 1 (RPMI shared memory with only 2 queues):
+ mailbox@10080000 {
+ compatible = "riscv,rpmi-shmem-mbox";
+ reg = <0x10080000 0x10000>,
+ <0x10090000 0x10000>;
+ reg-names = "a2p-req", "p2a-ack";
+ msi-parent = <&imsic_mlevel>;
+ riscv,slot-size = <64>;
+ #mbox-cells = <1>;
+ };
+ - |
+ // Example 2 (RPMI shared memory with only 4 queues):
+ mailbox@10001000 {
+ compatible = "riscv,rpmi-shmem-mbox";
+ reg = <0x10001000 0x800>,
+ <0x10001800 0x800>,
+ <0x10002000 0x800>,
+ <0x10002800 0x800>,
+ <0x10003000 0x4>;
+ reg-names = "a2p-req", "p2a-ack", "p2a-req", "a2p-ack", "a2p-doorbell";
+ msi-parent = <&imsic_mlevel>;
+ riscv,slot-size = <64>;
+ riscv,a2p-doorbell-value = <0x00008000>;
+ #mbox-cells = <1>;
+ };
--
2.43.0
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2025-07-02 5:13 [PATCH v7 00/24] Linux SBI MPXY and RPMI drivers Anup Patel
2025-07-02 5:13 ` Anup Patel
2025-07-02 5:13 ` Anup Patel [this message]
2025-07-02 5:13 ` [PATCH v7 01/24] dt-bindings: mailbox: Add bindings for RPMI shared memory transport Anup Patel
2025-07-02 5:13 ` [PATCH v7 02/24] dt-bindings: mailbox: Add bindings for RISC-V SBI MPXY extension Anup Patel
2025-07-02 5:13 ` Anup Patel
2025-07-02 5:13 ` [PATCH v7 03/24] RISC-V: Add defines for the SBI message proxy extension Anup Patel
2025-07-02 5:13 ` Anup Patel
2025-07-02 12:03 ` Andy Shevchenko
2025-07-02 12:03 ` Andy Shevchenko
2025-07-02 12:06 ` Andy Shevchenko
2025-07-02 12:06 ` Andy Shevchenko
2025-07-03 5:16 ` Anup Patel
2025-07-03 5:16 ` Anup Patel
2025-07-02 5:13 ` [PATCH v7 04/24] mailbox: Add common header for RPMI messages sent via mailbox Anup Patel
2025-07-02 5:13 ` Anup Patel
2025-07-02 5:13 ` [PATCH v7 05/24] mailbox: Allow controller specific mapping using fwnode Anup Patel
2025-07-02 5:13 ` Anup Patel
2025-07-02 12:32 ` Andy Shevchenko
2025-07-02 12:32 ` Andy Shevchenko
2025-07-02 5:13 ` [PATCH v7 06/24] byteorder: Add memcpy_to_le32() and memcpy_from_le32() Anup Patel
2025-07-02 5:13 ` Anup Patel
2025-07-02 11:30 ` Andy Shevchenko
2025-07-02 11:30 ` Andy Shevchenko
2025-07-04 8:16 ` Linus Walleij
2025-07-04 8:16 ` Linus Walleij
2025-07-02 5:13 ` [PATCH v7 07/24] mailbox: Add RISC-V SBI message proxy (MPXY) based mailbox driver Anup Patel
2025-07-02 5:13 ` Anup Patel
2025-07-02 12:50 ` Andy Shevchenko
2025-07-02 12:50 ` Andy Shevchenko
2025-07-03 6:52 ` Anup Patel
2025-07-03 6:52 ` Anup Patel
2025-07-02 5:13 ` [PATCH v7 08/24] dt-bindings: clock: Add RPMI clock service message proxy bindings Anup Patel
2025-07-02 5:13 ` Anup Patel
2025-07-02 5:13 ` [PATCH v7 09/24] dt-bindings: clock: Add RPMI clock service controller bindings Anup Patel
2025-07-02 5:13 ` Anup Patel
2025-07-02 5:13 ` [PATCH v7 10/24] clk: Add clock driver for the RISC-V RPMI clock service group Anup Patel
2025-07-02 5:13 ` Anup Patel
2025-07-02 13:08 ` Andy Shevchenko
2025-07-02 13:08 ` Andy Shevchenko
2025-07-04 4:15 ` Anup Patel
2025-07-04 4:15 ` Anup Patel
2025-07-02 5:13 ` [PATCH v7 11/24] dt-bindings: Add RPMI system MSI message proxy bindings Anup Patel
2025-07-02 5:13 ` Anup Patel
2025-07-02 5:13 ` [PATCH v7 12/24] dt-bindings: Add RPMI system MSI interrupt controller bindings Anup Patel
2025-07-02 5:13 ` Anup Patel
2025-07-02 5:13 ` [PATCH v7 13/24] irqchip: Add driver for the RPMI system MSI service group Anup Patel
2025-07-02 5:13 ` Anup Patel
2025-07-02 5:13 ` [PATCH v7 14/24] ACPI: property: Refactor acpi_fwnode_get_reference_args() Anup Patel
2025-07-02 5:13 ` Anup Patel
2025-07-02 10:07 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2025-07-02 10:07 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2025-07-02 14:45 ` Sunil V L
2025-07-02 14:45 ` Sunil V L
2025-07-02 17:01 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2025-07-02 17:01 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2025-07-02 5:13 ` [PATCH v7 15/24] ACPI: property: Add support for cells property Anup Patel
2025-07-02 5:13 ` Anup Patel
2025-07-02 10:20 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2025-07-02 10:20 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2025-07-02 11:37 ` Andy Shevchenko
2025-07-02 11:37 ` Andy Shevchenko
2025-07-02 11:39 ` Andy Shevchenko
2025-07-02 11:39 ` Andy Shevchenko
2025-07-02 12:39 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2025-07-02 12:39 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2025-07-02 12:56 ` Andy Shevchenko
2025-07-02 12:56 ` Andy Shevchenko
2025-07-02 13:16 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2025-07-02 13:16 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2025-07-02 15:06 ` Sunil V L
2025-07-02 15:06 ` Sunil V L
2025-07-02 16:56 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2025-07-02 16:56 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2025-07-03 9:31 ` Sunil V L
2025-07-03 9:31 ` Sunil V L
2025-07-02 11:44 ` Andy Shevchenko
2025-07-02 11:44 ` Andy Shevchenko
2025-07-02 5:13 ` [PATCH v7 16/24] ACPI: scan: Update honor list for RPMI System MSI Anup Patel
2025-07-02 5:13 ` Anup Patel
2025-07-02 10:21 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2025-07-02 10:21 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2025-07-02 11:45 ` Andy Shevchenko
2025-07-02 11:45 ` Andy Shevchenko
2025-07-02 5:13 ` [PATCH v7 17/24] ACPI: RISC-V: Create interrupt controller list in sorted order Anup Patel
2025-07-02 5:13 ` Anup Patel
2025-07-02 5:13 ` [PATCH v7 18/24] ACPI: RISC-V: Add support to update gsi range Anup Patel
2025-07-02 5:13 ` Anup Patel
2025-07-02 5:13 ` [PATCH v7 19/24] ACPI: RISC-V: Add RPMI System MSI to GSI mapping Anup Patel
2025-07-02 5:13 ` Anup Patel
2025-07-02 5:13 ` [PATCH v7 20/24] irqchip/irq-riscv-imsic-early: Export imsic_acpi_get_fwnode() Anup Patel
2025-07-02 5:13 ` Anup Patel
2025-07-02 5:13 ` [PATCH v7 21/24] mailbox/riscv-sbi-mpxy: Add ACPI support Anup Patel
2025-07-02 5:13 ` Anup Patel
2025-07-02 12:28 ` Andy Shevchenko
2025-07-02 12:28 ` Andy Shevchenko
2025-07-03 10:54 ` Sunil V L
2025-07-03 10:54 ` Sunil V L
2025-07-03 13:54 ` Andy Shevchenko
2025-07-03 13:54 ` Andy Shevchenko
2025-07-03 14:26 ` Anup Patel
2025-07-03 14:26 ` Anup Patel
2025-07-03 14:32 ` Andy Shevchenko
2025-07-03 14:32 ` Andy Shevchenko
2025-07-02 5:13 ` [PATCH v7 22/24] irqchip/riscv-rpmi-sysmsi: " Anup Patel
2025-07-02 5:13 ` Anup Patel
2025-07-02 5:13 ` [PATCH v7 23/24] RISC-V: Enable GPIO keyboard and event device in RV64 defconfig Anup Patel
2025-07-02 5:13 ` Anup Patel
2025-07-02 5:13 ` [PATCH v7 24/24] MAINTAINERS: Add entry for RISC-V RPMI and MPXY drivers Anup Patel
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