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From: santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/3] soc: ti: k3: Allow for exclusive and shared device
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Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 10:06:32 +0200
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On 8/20/19 2:48 PM, Lokesh Vutla wrote:
> 
> 
> On 29/07/19 5:54 PM, Lokesh Vutla wrote:
>> Sysfw provides an option for requesting exclusive access for a
>> device using the flags MSG_FLAG_DEVICE_EXCLUSIVE. If this flag is
>> not used, the device is meant to be shared across hosts. Once a device
>> is requested from a host with this flag set, any request to this
>> device from a different host will be nacked by sysfw.
>>
>> Current tisci firmware and pm drivers always requests for device with
>> exclusive permissions set. But this is not be true for certain devices
>> that are expcted to be shared across different host contexts.
>> So add support for getting the shared or exclusive permissions from DT
>> and request firmware accordingly.
> 
> Gentle Ping on this series.
> 
I can queue this up.