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diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/mailbox.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/mailbox.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..af8ecee2a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/mailbox.txt @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ +* Generic Mailbox Controller and client driver bindings + +Generic binding to provide a way for Mailbox controller drivers to +assign appropriate mailbox channel to client drivers. + +* Mailbox Controller + +Required property: +- #mbox-cells: Must be at least 1. Number of cells in a mailbox + specifier. + +Example: + mailbox: mailbox { + ... + #mbox-cells = <1>; + }; + + +* Mailbox Client + +Required property: +- mboxes: List of phandle and mailbox channel specifiers. + +Optional property: +- mbox-names: List of identifier strings for each mailbox channel. +- shmem : List of phandle pointing to the shared memory(SHM) area between the + users of these mailboxes for IPC, one for each mailbox. This shared + memory can be part of any memory reserved for the purpose of this + communication between the mailbox client and the remote. + + +Example: + pwr_cntrl: power { + ... + mbox-names = "pwr-ctrl", "rpc"; + mboxes = <&mailbox 0 &mailbox 1>; + }; + +Example with shared memory(shmem): + + sram: sram@50000000 { + compatible = "mmio-sram"; + reg = <0x50000000 0x10000>; + + #address-cells = <1>; + #size-cells = <1>; + ranges = <0 0x50000000 0x10000>; + + cl_shmem: shmem@0 { + compatible = "client-shmem"; + reg = <0x0 0x200>; + }; + }; + + client@2e000000 { + ... + mboxes = <&mailbox 0>; + shmem = <&cl_shmem>; + .. + }; |