From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jon Hunter Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 05/12] firmware: tegra: Add BPMP support Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 15:24:28 +0100 Message-ID: <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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20160822125458.GC17367-EkSeR96xj6Pcmrwk2tT4+A@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-tegra-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Thierry Reding Cc: Timo Alho , Peter De Schrijver , Sivaram Nair , Joseph Lo , linux-tegra-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-arm-kernel-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org, devicetree-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org 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 :-) Cheers Jon -- nvpublic