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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4] mailbox/omap: adapt to the new mailbox framework
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On 4 November 2014 at 04:35, Suman Anna <s-anna@ti.com> wrote:
> The OMAP mailbox driver and its existing clients (remoteproc
> for OMAP4+) are adapted to use the generic mailbox framework.
>
> The main changes for the adaptation are:
> - The tasklet used for Tx is replaced with the state machine from
> the generic mailbox framework. The workqueue used for processing
> the received messages stays intact for minimizing the effects on
> the OMAP mailbox clients.
> - The existing exported client API, omap_mbox_get, omap_mbox_put and
> omap_mbox_send_msg are deleted, as the framework provides equivalent
> functionality. A OMAP-specific omap_mbox_request_channel is added
> though to support non-DT way of requesting mailboxes.
> - The OMAP mailbox driver is integrated with the mailbox framework
> through the proper implementations of mbox_chan_ops, except for
> .last_tx_done and .peek_data. The OMAP mailbox driver does not need
> these ops, as it is completely interrupt driven.
> - The OMAP mailbox driver uses a custom of_xlate controller ops that
> allows phandles for the pargs specifier instead of indexing to avoid
> any channel registration order dependencies.
> - The new framework does not support multiple clients operating on a
> single channel, so the reference counting logic is simplified.
> - The remoteproc driver (current client) is adapted to use the new API.
> The notifier callbacks used within this client is replaced with the
> regular callbacks from the newer framework.
> - The exported OMAP mailbox API are limited to omap_mbox_save_ctx,
> omap_mbox_restore_ctx, omap_mbox_enable_irq & omap_mbox_disable_irq,
> with the signature modified to take in the new mbox_chan handle instead
> of the OMAP specific omap_mbox handle. The first 2 will be removed when
> the OMAP mailbox driver is adapted to runtime_pm. The other exported
> API omap_mbox_request_channel will be removed once existing legacy
> users are converted to DT.
>
> Cc: Jassi Brar <jassisinghbrar@gmail.com>
> Cc: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>
> Signed-off-by: Suman Anna <s-anna@ti.com>
> ---
> v3->v4: No code changes, switched the example to use the DSP node instead of
> WkupM3 in the bindings document & minor commit description changes. Other than
> that, this is a repost of the driver adaptation patch [1] from the OMAP Mailbox
> framework adaptation series [2]. This patch is intended for the 3.19 merge window,
> all the dependent patches in [2] are merged as of 3.18-rc2. The DTS patch in [2]
> will be posted separately.
>
> [1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-omap&m=141038453917790&w=2
> [2] http://marc.info/?l=linux-omap&m=141038447817775&w=2
>
> .../devicetree/bindings/mailbox/omap-mailbox.txt | 23 ++
> drivers/mailbox/omap-mailbox.c | 346 ++++++++++++---------
> drivers/remoteproc/omap_remoteproc.c | 51 +--
> include/linux/omap-mailbox.h | 16 +-
> 4 files changed, 256 insertions(+), 180 deletions(-)
>
Applied to mailbox-devel, Thanks
-Jassi


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