Re: [PATCH 2/3] dts: Adding docs for Xilinx LogiCORE IP mailbox driver.

From: SÃren Brinkmann
Date: Mon May 25 2015 - 15:19:57 EST


On Fri, 2015-05-22 at 07:43AM +0200, Michal Simek wrote:
> On 05/22/2015 01:37 AM, Moritz Fischer wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Moritz Fischer <moritz.fischer@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > .../bindings/mailbox/xilinx-mailbox.txt | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+)
> >
>
> IRC the rule was to send binding first and then the driver.
>
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/xilinx-mailbox.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/xilinx-mailbox.txt
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000..e559743
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/xilinx-mailbox.txt
> > @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
> > +Xilinx Mailbox Driver
> > +=====================
> > +
> > +Required properties:
> > +- compatible : "xlnx,mailbox-2.1".
> > +- reg : physical base address of the mailbox and length of
> > + memory mapped region.
> > +- #mbox-cells: Common mailbox binding property to identify the number
> > + of cells required for the mailbox specifier. Should be 1.
> > +
> > +Optional properties:
> > +- interrupt-parent : interrupt source phandle.
> > +- interrupts : interrupt number. The interrupt specifier format
>
> please be consistent with spacing around :. It doesn't look nice.
>
> > + depends on the interrupt controller parent.
> > +
> > +Example:
> > + mbox: mailbox@0x40400000 {
>
> remove 0x prefix here.
>
> > + compatible = "xlnx,axi-mailbox-2.1";
> > + reg = <0x100 0x3c>;
>
> This is weird - it should start with 40400000.
> Or is your physical address 0x100?
>
>
> > + interrupt-parent = <&intc>;
> > + interrupts = <5>;
> > + #mbox-cells = <1>;
> > + };
> > +
> > +Mailbox client
> > +===============
> > +"mboxes" and the optional "mbox-names" (please see
> > +Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/mailbox.txt for details). Each value
> > +of the mboxes property should contain a phandle to the mailbox controller
> > +device node and second argument is the channel index. It must be 0 (hardware
> > +support only one channel).The equivalent "mbox-names" property value can be
>
> .<space>The
>
> > +used to give a name to the communication channel to be used by the client user.
> > +
> > +Example:
> > + mclient0: mclient0@0x400 {
>
> ditto.
>
> > + compatible = "client-1.0";
> > + reg = <0x400 0x10>;
> > + mbox-names = "mbox", "mbox-rx";

This seems to consume two mailboxes but...

> > + mboxes = <&mbox 0>;

... this seems to describe only one, or am I mistaken?

SÃren
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