Many users of the mailbox controllers depend on the shared memory
between the two end points to exchange the main data while using simple
doorbell mechanism to alert the end points of the presence of a message.
This patch defines device tree bindings to represent such shared memory
in a generic way.
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
A new API call has been introduced which allows channels to be
requested by name. This new call uses the 'mbox-names' property,
so users need no further discouragement from supplying it.
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jassi Brar <jaswinder.singh@linaro.org>
Define generic bindings for the framework clients to
request mailbox channels.
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jassi Brar <jaswinder.singh@linaro.org>
Sudeep Holla