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From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date:   Tue, 28 Aug 2018 14:03:14 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/15] soc: octeontx2: Add mailbox support infra
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        Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>,
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On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 12:57 PM <sunil.kovvuri@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Aleksey Makarov <amakarov@marvell.com>
>
> This patch adds mailbox support infrastructure APIs.
> Each RVU device has a dedicated 64KB mailbox region
> shared with it's peer for communication. RVU AF has
> a separate mailbox region shared with each of RVU PFs
> and a RVU PF has a separate region shared with each of
> it's VF.
>
> These set of APIs are used by this driver (RVU AF) and
> other RVU PF/VF drivers eg netdev, crypto e.t.c.
>
> Signed-off-by: Aleksey Makarov <amakarov@marvell.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sunil Goutham <sgoutham@marvell.com>
> Signed-off-by: Lukasz Bartosik <lbartosik@marvell.com>

Why does this driver not use the drivers/mailbox/ infrastructure?

       Arnd