[RFC] Inter-processor Mailboxes Drivers

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Mon Feb 14 19:39:32 EST 2011


On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Hiroshi DOYU <Hiroshi.DOYU at nokia.com> wrote:

> OMAP mailbox is the interrupt driven 32bit unit H/W FIFO to other
> cores.

How is it used? Is it a low-traffic (like single 32bit words etc) signal
control-path link while the actual high-throughput data-path is done
with shared memory? (That is how the db5500 mbox works anyways.)

Linus Walleij


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