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From: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] dt-bindings: mailbox: Add Xilinx IPI Mailbox
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2018 10:57:41 +0100
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On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 12:18:32AM -0700, Wendy Liang wrote:
> Xilinx ZynqMP IPI(Inter Processor Interrupt) is a hardware block
> in ZynqMP SoC used for the communication between various processor
> systems.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wendy Liang <wendy.liang@xilinx.com>

[...]

> +Optional properties:
> +--------------------
> +- method:              The method of accessing the IPI agent registers.
> +                       Permitted values are: "smc" and "hvc". Default is
> +                       "smc".

You are mixing the hardware messaging based mailbox and the software
"smc/hvc" based mailbox together here. Please keep them separated.
IIUC smc/hvc based mailcox is used for "tx" or too keep it simple in
one direction and hardware based is used for "rx" or the other direction
for communication.

You *should not* mix them as single unit. Also lots of other vendor need
SMC/HVC based mailbox. So make it generic and keep it separate.

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Regards,
Sudeep