Re: [Linaro-acpi] [PATCH v3 1/3] Mailbox: Add support for PCC mailbox and channels

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On Wednesday 03 September 2014 15:49:21 Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 01:23:21PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Tuesday 02 September 2014 16:15:05 Ashwin Chaugule wrote:
> 
> > > Right. At least not in a way DT does. PCC clients know if something
> > > needs to be written/read via PCC mailbox and can identify a PCC
> > > subspace. (i.e. Mailbox channel). The PCC mailbox is uniquely
> > > identified/defined in the spec.
> 
> > > #define ACPI_ADR_SPACE_PLATFORM_COMM    (acpi_adr_space_type) 10
> 
> > > So we could use this ID instead of a string and use that to look up
> > > the PCC controller for a PCC client.
> 
> > I didn't realize this was the case. Does that mean we can treat
> > pcc as a linearly accessible address space the way we do for
> > system memory, pci-config etc?
> 
> > If that works, we should probably just have a regmap for it rather
> > than expose the mailbox API to client drivers.
> 
> A regmap doesn't seem to map very well here - as far as I can tell the
> addresses referred to are mailboxes rather than registers or memory
> addresses.  I could be misunderstanding though.

No, I think you are right. Nevermind then.

	Arnd
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