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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 02/21] dt-bindings: Add binding for gunyah hypervisor
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To:     Jassi Brar <jassisinghbrar@gmail.com>
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Hi Jassi,

On 10/27/2022 7:33 PM, Jassi Brar wrote:
 > On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 1:59 PM Elliot Berman 
<quic_eberman@quicinc.com> wrote:
 > .....
 >> +
 >> +        gunyah-resource-mgr@0 {
 >> +            compatible = "gunyah-resource-manager-1-0", 
"gunyah-resource-manager";
 >> +            interrupts = <GIC_SPI 3 IRQ_TYPE_EDGE_RISING>, /* TX 
full IRQ */
 >> +                         <GIC_SPI 4 IRQ_TYPE_EDGE_RISING>; /* RX 
empty IRQ */
 >> +            reg = <0x00000000 0x00000000>, <0x00000000 0x00000001>;
 >> +                  /* TX, RX cap ids */
 >> +        };
 >>
 > All these resources are used only by the mailbox controller driver.
 > So, this should be the mailbox controller node, rather than the
 > mailbox user.> One option is to load gunyah-resource-manager as a 
module that relies
 > on the gunyah-mailbox provider. That would also avoid the "Allow
 > direct registration to a channel" hack patch.

A message queue to another guest VM wouldn't be known at boot time and 
thus couldn't be described on the devicetree. We will need "Allow direct 
registration to a channel" patch anyway to support those message queues. 
I would like to have one consistent mechanism to set up message queues.

- Elliot