From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: thierry.reding@gmail.com (Thierry Reding) Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 17:00:58 +0200 Subject: [PATCH v3 05/12] firmware: tegra: Add BPMP support In-Reply-To: <6bb4d32f-4f13-285e-430e-672f375a9a46@nvidia.com> References: <20160819173233.13260-1-thierry.reding@gmail.com> <20160819173233.13260-6-thierry.reding@gmail.com> <94227d94-1d60-fda7-731b-26656633d585@nvidia.com> <20160822125458.GC17367@ulmo.ba.sec> <6bb4d32f-4f13-285e-430e-672f375a9a46@nvidia.com> Message-ID: <20160822150058.GA21012@ulmo.ba.sec> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 03:24:28PM +0100, Jon Hunter wrote: > > On 22/08/16 13:54, Thierry Reding wrote: > > * PGP Signed by an unknown key > > > > On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 10:26:50AM +0100, Jon Hunter wrote: > >> > >> On 19/08/16 18:32, Thierry Reding wrote: > >>> From: Thierry Reding > >>> > >>> The Boot and Power Management Processor (BPMP) is a co-processor found > >>> on Tegra SoCs. It is designed to handle the early stages of the boot > >>> process and offload power management tasks (such as clocks, resets, > >>> powergates, ...) as well as system control services. > >>> > >>> Compared to the ARM SCPI, the services provided by BPMP are message- > >>> based rather than method-based. The BPMP firmware driver provides the > >>> services to transmit data to and receive data from the BPMP. Users can > >>> also register an MRQ, for which a service routine will be run when a > >>> corresponding event is received from the firmware. > >> > >> MRQ? > > > > I think that means "Message ReQuest", which is sort of like an IRQ but > > the user will receive a message (with potentially payload) instead. Do > > you want me to spell that out in the commit message, or what would you > > suggest? > > I think that if we simply say 'Message ReQuest (MRQ)" it becomes clearer > what this is. Otherwise, google returns everything from 'most recent > quarter' to canadian rock bands :-) Okay, done. Thierry -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 819 bytes Desc: not available URL: