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Revision tags: v6.15, v6.15-rc7, v6.15-rc6, v6.15-rc5, v6.15-rc4, v6.15-rc3, v6.15-rc2, v6.15-rc1, v6.14, v6.14-rc7, v6.14-rc6, v6.14-rc5, v6.14-rc4, v6.14-rc3, v6.14-rc2, v6.14-rc1, v6.13
# fbf7e5ce 15-Jan-2025 Tudor Ambarus <[email protected]>

mailbox: add Samsung Exynos driver

The Samsung Exynos mailbox controller, used on Google GS101 SoC, has 16
flag bits for hardware interrupt generation and a shared register for
passing mailbox messa

mailbox: add Samsung Exynos driver

The Samsung Exynos mailbox controller, used on Google GS101 SoC, has 16
flag bits for hardware interrupt generation and a shared register for
passing mailbox messages. When the controller is used by the
ACPM interface the shared register is ignored and the mailbox controller
acts as a doorbell. The controller just raises the interrupt to APM
after the ACPM interface has written the message to SRAM.

Add support for the Samsung Exynos mailbox controller.

Signed-off-by: Tudor Ambarus <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jassi Brar <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v6.13-rc7, v6.13-rc6, v6.13-rc5, v6.13-rc4
# e4b1d67e 17-Dec-2024 Valentina Fernandez <[email protected]>

mailbox: add Microchip IPC support

Add a mailbox controller driver for the Microchip Inter-processor
Communication (IPC), which is used to send and receive data between
processors.

The driver uses

mailbox: add Microchip IPC support

Add a mailbox controller driver for the Microchip Inter-processor
Communication (IPC), which is used to send and receive data between
processors.

The driver uses the RISC-V Supervisor Binary Interface (SBI) to
communicate with software running in machine mode (M-mode) to access
the IPC hardware block.

Additional details on the Microchip vendor extension and the IPC
function IDs described in the driver can be found in the following
documentation:

https://github.com/linux4microchip/microchip-sbi-ecall-extension

This SBI interface in this driver is compatible with the Mi-V Inter-hart
Communication (IHC) IP.

Transmitting and receiving data through the mailbox framework is done
through struct mchp_ipc_msg.

Signed-off-by: Valentina Fernandez <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jassi Brar <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v6.13-rc3, v6.13-rc2, v6.13-rc1, v6.12, v6.12-rc7
# 5d4d263e 04-Nov-2024 Michal Wilczynski <[email protected]>

mailbox: Introduce support for T-head TH1520 Mailbox driver

This driver was tested using the drm/imagination GPU driver. It was able
to successfully power on the GPU, by passing a command through ma

mailbox: Introduce support for T-head TH1520 Mailbox driver

This driver was tested using the drm/imagination GPU driver. It was able
to successfully power on the GPU, by passing a command through mailbox
from E910 core to E902 that's responsible for powering up the GPU. The
GPU driver was able to read the BVNC version from control registers,
which confirms it was successfully powered on.

[ 33.957467] powervr ffef400000.gpu: [drm] loaded firmware
powervr/rogue_36.52.104.182_v1.fw
[ 33.966008] powervr ffef400000.gpu: [drm] FW version v1.0 (build
6621747 OS)
[ 38.978542] powervr ffef400000.gpu: [drm] *ERROR* Firmware failed to
boot

Though the driver still fails to boot the firmware, the mailbox driver
works when used with the not-yet-upstreamed firmware AON driver. There
is ongoing work to get the BXM-4-64 supported with the drm/imagination
driver [1], though it's not completed yet.

This work is based on the driver from the vendor kernel [2].

Link: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/imagination/linux-firmware/-/issues/2 [1]
Link: https://github.com/revyos/thead-kernel.git [2]

Signed-off-by: Michal Wilczynski <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jassi Brar <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v6.12-rc6, v6.12-rc5, v6.12-rc4, v6.12-rc3, v6.12-rc2, v6.12-rc1, v6.11, v6.11-rc7, v6.11-rc6, v6.11-rc5, v6.11-rc4, v6.11-rc3, v6.11-rc2, v6.11-rc1, v6.10, v6.10-rc7, v6.10-rc6, v6.10-rc5, v6.10-rc4
# 0e2a9a03 12-Jun-2024 Sibi Sankar <[email protected]>

mailbox: Add support for QTI CPUCP mailbox controller

Add support for CPUSS Control Processor (CPUCP) mailbox controller,
this driver enables communication between AP and CPUCP by acting as
a doorbe

mailbox: Add support for QTI CPUCP mailbox controller

Add support for CPUSS Control Processor (CPUCP) mailbox controller,
this driver enables communication between AP and CPUCP by acting as
a doorbell between them.

Reviewed-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Sibi Sankar <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Bjorn Andersson <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Dybcio <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jassi Brar <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v6.10-rc3, v6.10-rc2, v6.10-rc1, v6.9, v6.9-rc7, v6.9-rc6, v6.9-rc5
# ca1a8680 18-Apr-2024 Cristian Marussi <[email protected]>

mailbox: arm_mhuv3: Add driver

Add support for ARM MHUv3 mailbox controller.

Support is limited to the MHUv3 Doorbell extension using only the PBX/MBX
combined interrupts.

Signed-off-by: Cristian

mailbox: arm_mhuv3: Add driver

Add support for ARM MHUv3 mailbox controller.

Support is limited to the MHUv3 Doorbell extension using only the PBX/MBX
combined interrupts.

Signed-off-by: Cristian Marussi <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jassi Brar <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v6.9-rc4, v6.9-rc3, v6.9-rc2, v6.9-rc1, v6.8, v6.8-rc7, v6.8-rc6, v6.8-rc5, v6.8-rc4, v6.8-rc3, v6.8-rc2, v6.8-rc1, v6.7, v6.7-rc8, v6.7-rc7, v6.7-rc6, v6.7-rc5, v6.7-rc4, v6.7-rc3, v6.7-rc2, v6.7-rc1, v6.6, v6.6-rc7, v6.6-rc6, v6.6-rc5, v6.6-rc4, v6.6-rc3, v6.6-rc2, v6.6-rc1, v6.5, v6.5-rc7, v6.5-rc6, v6.5-rc5, v6.5-rc4, v6.5-rc3, v6.5-rc2, v6.5-rc1, v6.4, v6.4-rc7, v6.4-rc6, v6.4-rc5, v6.4-rc4, v6.4-rc3, v6.4-rc2, v6.4-rc1, v6.3, v6.3-rc7, v6.3-rc6, v6.3-rc5, v6.3-rc4, v6.3-rc3
# 143897c4 14-Mar-2023 Hector Martin <[email protected]>

mailbox: apple: Delete driver

This driver is now orphaned and superseded by
drivers/soc/apple/mailbox.c.

Acked-by: Eric Curtin <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Neal Gompa <[email protected]>
Acked-by: A

mailbox: apple: Delete driver

This driver is now orphaned and superseded by
drivers/soc/apple/mailbox.c.

Acked-by: Eric Curtin <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Neal Gompa <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Alyssa Rosenzweig <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Hector Martin <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v6.3-rc2, v6.3-rc1, v6.2, v6.2-rc8, v6.2-rc7, v6.2-rc6, v6.2-rc5, v6.2-rc4, v6.2-rc3, v6.2-rc2, v6.2-rc1, v6.1, v6.1-rc8, v6.1-rc7, v6.1-rc6, v6.1-rc5, v6.1-rc4, v6.1-rc3, v6.1-rc2, v6.1-rc1, v6.0, v6.0-rc7, v6.0-rc6, v6.0-rc5, v6.0-rc4, v6.0-rc3, v6.0-rc2, v6.0-rc1, v5.19, v5.19-rc8, v5.19-rc7, v5.19-rc6, v5.19-rc5, v5.19-rc4, v5.19-rc3, v5.19-rc2, v5.19-rc1, v5.18, v5.18-rc7, v5.18-rc6, v5.18-rc5, v5.18-rc4, v5.18-rc3, v5.18-rc2, v5.18-rc1, v5.17, v5.17-rc8, v5.17-rc7, v5.17-rc6
# af2dfa96 25-Feb-2022 Allen-KH Cheng <[email protected]>

mailbox: mediatek: add support for adsp mailbox controller

This patch is to for MediaTek ADSP IPC mailbox controller driver
It is used to send short messages between processors with adsp

Signed-off

mailbox: mediatek: add support for adsp mailbox controller

This patch is to for MediaTek ADSP IPC mailbox controller driver
It is used to send short messages between processors with adsp

Signed-off-by: Allen-KH Cheng <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Tzung-Bi Shih <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: YC Hung <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jassi Brar <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v5.17-rc5, v5.17-rc4, v5.17-rc3, v5.17-rc2, v5.17-rc1, v5.16, v5.16-rc8, v5.16-rc7, v5.16-rc6, v5.16-rc5, v5.16-rc4, v5.16-rc3, v5.16-rc2, v5.16-rc1, v5.15, v5.15-rc7
# f89f9c56 25-Oct-2021 Sven Peter <[email protected]>

mailbox: apple: Add driver for Apple mailboxes

Apple SoCs such as the M1 come with various co-processors. Mailboxes
are used to communicate with those. This driver adds support for
two variants of t

mailbox: apple: Add driver for Apple mailboxes

Apple SoCs such as the M1 come with various co-processors. Mailboxes
are used to communicate with those. This driver adds support for
two variants of those mailboxes.

Signed-off-by: Sven Peter <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jassi Brar <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v5.15-rc6, v5.15-rc5, v5.15-rc4, v5.15-rc3, v5.15-rc2, v5.15-rc1, v5.14, v5.14-rc7, v5.14-rc6, v5.14-rc5, v5.14-rc4, v5.14-rc3, v5.14-rc2, v5.14-rc1, v5.13
# 83d7b156 24-Jun-2021 Conor Dooley <[email protected]>

mbox: add polarfire soc system controller mailbox

This driver adds support for the single mailbox channel of the MSS
system controller on the Microchip PolarFire SoC.

Signed-off-by: Conor Dooley <c

mbox: add polarfire soc system controller mailbox

This driver adds support for the single mailbox channel of the MSS
system controller on the Microchip PolarFire SoC.

Signed-off-by: Conor Dooley <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jassi Brar <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v5.13-rc7, v5.13-rc6, v5.13-rc5, v5.13-rc4, v5.13-rc3, v5.13-rc2, v5.13-rc1, v5.12, v5.12-rc8, v5.12-rc7, v5.12-rc6, v5.12-rc5, v5.12-rc4, v5.12-rc3, v5.12-rc2, v5.12-rc1, v5.12-rc1-dontuse, v5.11, v5.11-rc7, v5.11-rc6, v5.11-rc5, v5.11-rc4, v5.11-rc3, v5.11-rc2, v5.11-rc1, v5.10, v5.10-rc7, v5.10-rc6, v5.10-rc5
# 5a6338cc 17-Nov-2020 Viresh Kumar <[email protected]>

mailbox: arm_mhuv2: Add driver

This adds driver for the ARM MHUv2 (Message Handling Unit) mailbox
controller.

This is based on the accepted DT bindings of the controller and supports
combination of

mailbox: arm_mhuv2: Add driver

This adds driver for the ARM MHUv2 (Message Handling Unit) mailbox
controller.

This is based on the accepted DT bindings of the controller and supports
combination of both transport protocols, i.e. doorbell and data-transfer.

Transmitting and receiving data through the mailbox framework is done
through struct arm_mhuv2_mbox_msg.

Based on the initial work done by Morten Borup Petersen from ARM.

Co-developed-by: Tushar Khandelwal <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Tushar Khandelwal <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Usama Arif <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jassi Brar <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v5.10-rc4, v5.10-rc3, v5.10-rc2, v5.10-rc1, v5.9
# 7002ca23 08-Oct-2020 Sudeep Holla <[email protected]>

mailbox: arm_mhu: Add ARM MHU doorbell driver

The MHU drives the signal using a 32-bit register, with all 32 bits
logically ORed together. The MHU provides a set of registers to enable
software to s

mailbox: arm_mhu: Add ARM MHU doorbell driver

The MHU drives the signal using a 32-bit register, with all 32 bits
logically ORed together. The MHU provides a set of registers to enable
software to set, clear, and check the status of each of the bits of this
register independently. The use of 32 bits for each interrupt line
enables software to provide more information about the source of the
interrupt. For example, each bit of the register can be associated with
a type of event that can contribute to raising the interrupt.

This patch adds a separate the MHU controller driver for doorbel mode
of operation using the extended DT binding to add support the same.

Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jassi Brar <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v5.9-rc8, v5.9-rc7, v5.9-rc6, v5.9-rc5, v5.9-rc4, v5.9-rc3, v5.9-rc2, v5.9-rc1, v5.8, v5.8-rc7, v5.8-rc6, v5.8-rc5, v5.8-rc4, v5.8-rc3, v5.8-rc2, v5.8-rc1, v5.7
# fa74a025 30-May-2020 Manivannan Sadhasivam <[email protected]>

mailbox: Add support for Qualcomm IPCC

Add support for the Inter-Processor Communication Controller (IPCC)
block from Qualcomm that coordinates the interrupts (inbound & outbound)
for Multiprocessor

mailbox: Add support for Qualcomm IPCC

Add support for the Inter-Processor Communication Controller (IPCC)
block from Qualcomm that coordinates the interrupts (inbound & outbound)
for Multiprocessor (MPROC), COMPUTE-Level0 (COMPUTE-L0) & COMPUTE-Level1
(COMPUTE-L1) protocols for the Application Processor Subsystem (APSS).

This driver is modeled as an irqchip+mailbox driver. The irqchip part
helps in receiving the interrupts from the IPCC clients such as modems,
DSPs, PCI-E etc... and forwards them to respective entities in APSS.

On the other hand, the mailbox part is used to send interrupts to the IPCC
clients from the entities of APSS.

Reviewed-by: Bjorn Andersson <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Raghavendra Rao Ananta <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Venkata Narendra Kumar Gutta <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <[email protected]>
[mani: moved to mailbox, added static mbox channels and cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jassi Brar <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v5.7-rc7
# ca27fc26 22-May-2020 Baolin Wang <[email protected]>

mailbox: sprd: Add Spreadtrum mailbox driver

The Spreadtrum mailbox controller supports 8 channels to communicate
with MCUs, and it contains 2 different parts: inbox and outbox, which
are used to se

mailbox: sprd: Add Spreadtrum mailbox driver

The Spreadtrum mailbox controller supports 8 channels to communicate
with MCUs, and it contains 2 different parts: inbox and outbox, which
are used to send and receive messages by IRQ mode.

Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jassi Brar <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v5.7-rc6, v5.7-rc5, v5.7-rc4, v5.7-rc3, v5.7-rc2, v5.7-rc1, v5.6, v5.6-rc7, v5.6-rc6, v5.6-rc5, v5.6-rc4, v5.6-rc3
# 25831c44 23-Feb-2020 Samuel Holland <[email protected]>

mailbox: sun6i-msgbox: Add a new mailbox driver

Allwinner sun6i, sun8i, sun9i, and sun50i SoCs contain a hardware
message box used for communication between the ARM CPUs and the ARISC
management cop

mailbox: sun6i-msgbox: Add a new mailbox driver

Allwinner sun6i, sun8i, sun9i, and sun50i SoCs contain a hardware
message box used for communication between the ARM CPUs and the ARISC
management coprocessor. This mailbox contains 8 unidirectional
4-message FIFOs.

Add a driver for it, so it can be used with the Linux mailbox framework.

Reviewed-by: Philipp Zabel <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Holland <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jassi Brar <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v5.6-rc2, v5.6-rc1, v5.5, v5.5-rc7, v5.5-rc6, v5.5-rc5, v5.5-rc4, v5.5-rc3, v5.5-rc2, v5.5-rc1, v5.4, v5.4-rc8, v5.4-rc7, v5.4-rc6, v5.4-rc5, v5.4-rc4, v5.4-rc3, v5.4-rc2, v5.4-rc1, v5.3, v5.3-rc8, v5.3-rc7, v5.3-rc6, v5.3-rc5, v5.3-rc4, v5.3-rc3, v5.3-rc2, v5.3-rc1, v5.2, v5.2-rc7, v5.2-rc6, v5.2-rc5, v5.2-rc4, v5.2-rc3, v5.2-rc2, v5.2-rc1, v5.1, v5.1-rc7, v5.1-rc6, v5.1-rc5, v5.1-rc4, v5.1-rc3
# 8fbbfd96 31-Mar-2019 Marek Behun <[email protected]>

mailbox: Add support for Armada 37xx rWTM mailbox

This adds support for the mailbox via which the kernel can communicate
with the firmware running on the secure processor of the Armada 37xx
SOC.

Th

mailbox: Add support for Armada 37xx rWTM mailbox

This adds support for the mailbox via which the kernel can communicate
with the firmware running on the secure processor of the Armada 37xx
SOC.

The rWTM secure processor has access to internal eFuses and
cryptographic circuits, such as the Entropy Bit Generator to generate
true random numbers.

Signed-off-by: Marek Behun <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jassi Brar <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v5.1-rc2, v5.1-rc1, v5.0, v5.0-rc8
# 4981b82b 22-Feb-2019 Wendy Liang <[email protected]>

mailbox: ZynqMP IPI mailbox controller

This patch is to introduce ZynqMP IPI mailbox controller driver
to use the ZynqMP IPI block as mailboxes.

Signed-off-by: Wendy Liang <[email protected]>

mailbox: ZynqMP IPI mailbox controller

This patch is to introduce ZynqMP IPI mailbox controller driver
to use the ZynqMP IPI block as mailboxes.

Signed-off-by: Wendy Liang <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jassi Brar <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v5.0-rc7, v5.0-rc6, v5.0-rc5, v5.0-rc4, v5.0-rc3, v5.0-rc2, v5.0-rc1, v4.20, v4.20-rc7, v4.20-rc6, v4.20-rc5, v4.20-rc4, v4.20-rc3, v4.20-rc2, v4.20-rc1, v4.19, v4.19-rc8, v4.19-rc7, v4.19-rc6, v4.19-rc5, v4.19-rc4, v4.19-rc3, v4.19-rc2, v4.19-rc1, v4.18, v4.18-rc8
# 2bb70056 03-Aug-2018 Oleksij Rempel <[email protected]>

mailbox: Add support for i.MX messaging unit

The i.MX Messaging Unit is a two side block which allows applications
implement communication over this sides.

The MU includes the following features:
-

mailbox: Add support for i.MX messaging unit

The i.MX Messaging Unit is a two side block which allows applications
implement communication over this sides.

The MU includes the following features:
- Messaging control by interrupts or by polling
- Four general-purpose interrupt requests reflected to the other side
- Three general-purpose flags reflected to the other side
- Four receive registers with maskable interrupt
- Four transmit registers with maskable interrupt

Reviewed-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Dong Aisheng <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Oleksij Rempel <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jassi Brar <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v4.18-rc7
# 623a6143 25-Jul-2018 Houlong Wei <[email protected]>

mailbox: mediatek: Add Mediatek CMDQ driver

This patch is first version of Mediatek Command Queue(CMDQ) driver. The
CMDQ is used to help write registers with critical time limitation,
such as updati

mailbox: mediatek: Add Mediatek CMDQ driver

This patch is first version of Mediatek Command Queue(CMDQ) driver. The
CMDQ is used to help write registers with critical time limitation,
such as updating display configuration during the vblank. It controls
Global Command Engine (GCE) hardware to achieve this requirement.
Currently, CMDQ only supports display related hardwares, but we expect
it can be extended to other hardwares for future requirements.

Signed-off-by: Houlong Wei <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: HS Liao <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: CK Hu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jassi Brar <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v4.18-rc6, v4.18-rc5, v4.18-rc4, v4.18-rc3, v4.18-rc2, v4.18-rc1, v4.17
# ffbded7d 31-May-2018 Fabien Dessenne <[email protected]>

mailbox: add STMicroelectronics STM32 IPCC driver

The STMicroelectronics STM32 Inter-Processor Communication Controller
(IPCC) is used for communicating data between two processors.
It provides a no

mailbox: add STMicroelectronics STM32 IPCC driver

The STMicroelectronics STM32 Inter-Processor Communication Controller
(IPCC) is used for communicating data between two processors.
It provides a non blocking signaling mechanism to post and retrieve
communication data in an atomic way.

Signed-off-by: Fabien Dessenne <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ludovic Barre <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jassi Brar <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v4.17-rc7, v4.17-rc6, v4.17-rc5, v4.17-rc4, v4.17-rc3, v4.17-rc2, v4.17-rc1, v4.16, v4.16-rc7, v4.16-rc6, v4.16-rc5, v4.16-rc4
# 41c0e939 28-Feb-2018 Kaihua Zhong <[email protected]>

mailbox: Add support for Hi3660 mailbox

Hi3660 mailbox controller is used to send message within multiple
processors, MCU, HIFI, etc. It supports 32 mailbox channels and every
channel can only be u

mailbox: Add support for Hi3660 mailbox

Hi3660 mailbox controller is used to send message within multiple
processors, MCU, HIFI, etc. It supports 32 mailbox channels and every
channel can only be used for single transferring direction. Once the
channel is enabled, it needs to specify the destination interrupt and
acknowledge interrupt, these two interrupt vectors are used to create
the connection between the mailbox and interrupt controllers.

The data transferring supports two modes, one is named as "automatic
acknowledge" mode so after send message the kernel doesn't need to wait
for acknowledge from remote and directly return; there have another mode
is to rely on handling interrupt for acknowledge.

This commit is for initial version driver, which only supports
"automatic acknowledge" mode to support CPU clock, which is the only
one consumer to use mailbox and has been verified. Later may enhance
this driver for interrupt mode (e.g. for supporting HIFI).

Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ruyi Wang <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Kaihua Zhong <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jassi Brar <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v4.16-rc3, v4.16-rc2, v4.16-rc1, v4.15, v4.15-rc9, v4.15-rc8, v4.15-rc7, v4.15-rc6, v4.15-rc5, v4.15-rc4, v4.15-rc3, v4.15-rc2, v4.15-rc1, v4.14, v4.14-rc8
# b2441318 01-Nov-2017 Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

- when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
COPYING file license applied.

For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 11139

and resulted in the first patch in this series.

If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930

and resulted in the second patch in this series.

- if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
it (per prior point). Results summary:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270
GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17
LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15
GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14
((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5
LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4
LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1

and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

- when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
the concluded license(s).

- when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

- In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

- When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

- If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
- a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
license ids and scores
- reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
- reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v4.14-rc7, v4.14-rc6, v4.14-rc5, v4.14-rc4, v4.14-rc3, v4.14-rc2, v4.14-rc1, v4.13, v4.13-rc7, v4.13-rc6, v4.13-rc5, v4.13-rc4, v4.13-rc3, v4.13-rc2, v4.13-rc1, v4.12, v4.12-rc7, v4.12-rc6, v4.12-rc5, v4.12-rc4, v4.12-rc3
# 25bfee16 27-May-2017 Bjorn Andersson <[email protected]>

mailbox: Introduce Qualcomm APCS IPC driver

This implements a driver that exposes the IPC bits found in the APCS
Global block in various Qualcomm platforms. The bits are used to signal
inter-process

mailbox: Introduce Qualcomm APCS IPC driver

This implements a driver that exposes the IPC bits found in the APCS
Global block in various Qualcomm platforms. The bits are used to signal
inter-processor communication signals from the application CPU to other
masters.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jassi Brar <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v4.12-rc2, v4.12-rc1, v4.11, v4.11-rc8, v4.11-rc7, v4.11-rc6, v4.11-rc5, v4.11-rc4, v4.11-rc3
# dbc049ee 15-Mar-2017 Anup Patel <[email protected]>

mailbox: Add driver for Broadcom FlexRM ring manager

Some of the Broadcom iProc SoCs have FlexRM ring manager
which provides a ring-based programming interface to various
offload engines (e.g. RAID,

mailbox: Add driver for Broadcom FlexRM ring manager

Some of the Broadcom iProc SoCs have FlexRM ring manager
which provides a ring-based programming interface to various
offload engines (e.g. RAID, Crypto, etc).

This patch adds a common mailbox driver for Broadcom FlexRM
ring manager which can be shared by various offload engine
drivers (implemented as mailbox clients).

Reviewed-by: Ray Jui <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Scott Branden <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Pramod KUMAR <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jassi Brar <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v4.11-rc2, v4.11-rc1, v4.10, v4.10-rc8, v4.10-rc7, v4.10-rc6, v4.10-rc5, v4.10-rc4, v4.10-rc3, v4.10-rc2, v4.10-rc1, v4.9, v4.9-rc8, v4.9-rc7, v4.9-rc6, v4.9-rc5, v4.9-rc4, v4.9-rc3, v4.9-rc2, v4.9-rc1, v4.8, v4.8-rc8, v4.8-rc7, v4.8-rc6, v4.8-rc5, v4.8-rc4, v4.8-rc3
# 0fe88461 19-Aug-2016 Thierry Reding <[email protected]>

mailbox: Add Tegra HSP driver

This driver exposes a mailbox interface for interprocessor communication
using the Hardware Synchronization Primitives (HSP) module's doorbell
mechanism. There are mult

mailbox: Add Tegra HSP driver

This driver exposes a mailbox interface for interprocessor communication
using the Hardware Synchronization Primitives (HSP) module's doorbell
mechanism. There are multiple HSP instances and they provide additional
features such as shared mailboxes, shared and arbitrated semaphores.

A driver for a remote processor can use the mailbox client provided by
the HSP driver and build an IPC protocol on top of this synchronization
mechanism.

Based on work by Joseph Lo <[email protected]>.

Acked-by: Jassi Brar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <[email protected]>

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# ad3a212c 18-Aug-2016 Neil Armstrong <[email protected]>

mailbox: Add Platform Message-Handling-Unit variant driver

Add Message-Handling-Unit driver for platform variants as mailbox controller.
Actually, only the Amlogic Meson GXBB SoC MHU is supported.

mailbox: Add Platform Message-Handling-Unit variant driver

Add Message-Handling-Unit driver for platform variants as mailbox controller.
Actually, only the Amlogic Meson GXBB SoC MHU is supported.

Signed-off-by: Neil Armstrong <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jassi Brar <[email protected]>

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