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From: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
To: Jim Quinlan <james.quinlan@broadcom.com>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
	Jassi Brar <jassisinghbrar@gmail.com>,
	bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com,
	open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"moderated list:BROADCOM BCM7XXX ARM ARCHITECTURE"
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] mailbox: Add Broadcom STB mailbox driver
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2020 17:38:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201009163848.5tbl5bmvuoj2de2v@bogus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200919192235.43872-3-james.quinlan@broadcom.com>

On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 03:22:30PM -0400, Jim Quinlan wrote:
> only implements the agent-to-platform channel;

In that case any reason why you can't reuse the existing smc transport
for SCMI. It was added recently in case you haven't checked the latest
kernel version(v5.8 or above). Check out for drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/smc.c
IIUC rather vaguely Florian was cc-ed on those patches.

> we may implement the platform-to-agent channel in the future.

This is not yet support with that transport, it is hard to generalise
as different vendors have their own solutions there.

> An unusual aspect of this driver is how the completion of an SCMI message
> is indicated.  An SCMI message is initiated with an ARM SMC call, but the
> return of this call does not indicate the execution or completion of the
> message.  Rather, the message's completion is signaled by an interrupt.
>

So are these not fast SMC/HVC calls then ? If so we may need some changes
to that driver. I just rejected multiple message support as we had assumed
fast smc/hvc.

-- 
Regards,
Sudeep

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-10-09 16:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-19 19:22 [PATCH v3 0/2] mailbox: Add Broadcom STB mailbox driver Jim Quinlan
2020-09-19 19:22 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] dt-bindings: Add bindings for BrcmSTB SCMI " Jim Quinlan
2020-09-19 19:22 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] mailbox: Add Broadcom STB " Jim Quinlan
2020-09-19 19:31   ` Randy Dunlap
2020-09-19 21:04     ` Jim Quinlan
2020-10-09 16:38   ` Sudeep Holla [this message]
2020-10-09 17:03     ` Florian Fainelli
2020-10-21 21:38     ` Jim Quinlan

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