From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tony@atomide.com (Tony Lindgren) Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 09:24:42 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] ARM: OMAP2+: move mailbox.h out of plat-omap headers In-Reply-To: References: <1351530381-11459-1-git-send-email-omar.luna@linaro.org> <1351530381-11459-2-git-send-email-omar.luna@linaro.org> <20121029175228.GD11908@atomide.com> Message-ID: <20121030162441.GF11908@atomide.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org * Omar Ramirez Luna [121030 05:20]: > Tony, > > On 29 October 2012 12:52, Tony Lindgren wrote: > >> --- /dev/null > >> +++ b/include/linux/platform_data/omap_mailbox.h > >> @@ -0,0 +1,105 @@ > > > > This file should only contain pure platform data needed > > by the core omap code to pass to the mailbox driver. > > Ok, looking at it closely, this header file is related to the API > itself, there is nothing that could be actually considered as pure > platform data, the structures are related with the mailbox framework > and even if I split this file into two, the additional header would > end up including the "platform_data" header unless I move > save/restore_ctx functions and then export them as symbols for the > API. > > So, it might be better for the entire file to sit in > linux/include/mailbox/ then. OK to me. > > The mailbox API header should be somewhere else, > > like include/linux/mailbox/mailbox-omap.h or similar. > > Ok. > > > But shouldn't this all now be handled by using the > > remoteproc framework? > > Remoteproc doesn't handle the mailbox hardware directly, it still > relies in the mailbox framework for the low level communications. > E.g.: Proc1 has a message (virtqueue msg) queued to Proc2, uses > mailbox msg to generate an interrupt to Proc2, Proc2 queries the > message (virtqueue) based on the mailbox message received. OK. Greg, do these patches look OK to you to move to live under drivers/mailbox? Regards, Tony