[RFC] MPIC Bindings and Bindings for AMP Systems

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Thu Jan 6 09:09:18 EST 2011


On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 15:58:55 -0600
Meador Inge <meador_inge at mentor.com> wrote:

> We need some sort of mapping between a message register and a message 
> register number so that the message registers can be referenced through 
> some sort of API (e.g. 'mpic_msgr_read(0)').  One way to do that would 
> be by putting an order on the registers.  Maybe there is a better way, 
> though ...

A message register is uniquely identified by a reference to the device
tree node, plus a 0-3 index into that node's message registers.

-Scott



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