[PATCH 1/4] Documentation: dt: mailbox: Add Aspeed ast2400/2500 bindings

Rob Herring robh at kernel.org
Thu Jan 19 07:38:33 AEDT 2017


On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 11:29:07AM +1100, Cyril Bur wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur at gmail.com>
> ---
>  .../devicetree/bindings/mailbox/aspeed-mbox.txt    | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 44 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/aspeed-mbox.txt
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/aspeed-mbox.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/aspeed-mbox.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..633cd534d91c
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/aspeed-mbox.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
> +ASpeed Mailbox Driver
> +=====================
> +
> +The ASpeed mailbox allows for communication between different
> +processors. The mailbox on the ASpeed ast2400 and ast2500 is a set of
> +16 single byte data registers along with interrupt and configuration
> +registers directly on the SoC. These are memory mapped on the aspeed
> +and can be accessed via the SuperIO registers on the other processor.
> +
> +Device Node:
> +============
> +This represents the mailbox on the Soc.
> +
> +As the mailbox registers sit on the LPC bus, it makes most sense for
> +the device to be within the LPC host node. See
> +Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/aspeed-lpc.txt for more
> +information. This does not have to be the case, provided the reg
> +property can give the full address of the mbox registers.

This does have to be the case. I'd expect all devices on the LPC bus to 
be under a LPC bus node.

Drop the last sentence, and:

Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org>


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