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+* 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>;
+ ..
+ };