Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934395AbaFTE7b (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2014 00:59:31 -0400 Received: from mail-ob0-f181.google.com ([209.85.214.181]:60379 "EHLO mail-ob0-f181.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751378AbaFTE73 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2014 00:59:29 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <1402944372-31901-1-git-send-email-bjorn.andersson@sonymobile.com> <7hvbrzbh1u.fsf@paris.lan> <7hzjha8b97.fsf@paris.lan> <842A7147-A2CC-42BD-9947-CBADF738DC92@codeaurora.org> <7hegym6uca.fsf@paris.lan> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 21:59:28 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] Qualcomm Resource Power Manager driver From: Bjorn Andersson To: Jassi Brar Cc: Kevin Hilman , Kumar Gala , Lee Jones , Bjorn Andersson , Rob Herring , Mark Rutland , Liam Girdwood , Mark Brown , Josh Cartwright , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , linux-arm-msm , Paul Walmsley Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Jassi Brar wrote: [...] > Mailbox isn't about how you program the h/w. Do whatever is needed to > send a message across. > But there are no messages to get across here, each individual resource is exposed directly in the address space of the Linux system. > BTW I haven't looked closely, but probably you could push the data tables in DT? > The first RFC for this had all configuration in devicetree; we decided not to go that path as this gave a cleaner abstraction and is less error prone. Regards, Bjorn -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/