mailbox: dt: Supply bindings for ST's Mailbox IP
authorLee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Fri, 16 Oct 2015 07:21:27 +0000 (08:21 +0100)
committerJassi Brar <jaswinder.singh@linaro.org>
Sat, 17 Oct 2015 05:06:56 +0000 (10:36 +0530)
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jassi Brar <jaswinder.singh@linaro.org>
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/sti-mailbox.txt [new file with mode: 0644]

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+ST Microelectronics Mailbox Driver
+
+Each ST Mailbox IP currently consists of 4 instances of 32 channels.  Messages
+are passed between Application and Remote processors using shared memory.
+
+Controller
+----------
+
+Required properties:
+- compatible           : Should be "st,stih407-mailbox"
+- reg                  : Offset and length of the device's register set
+- mbox-name            : Name of the mailbox
+- #mbox-cells:         : Must be 2
+                         <&phandle instance channel direction>
+                           phandle   : Label name of controller
+                           instance  : Instance number
+                           channel   : Channel number
+
+Optional properties
+- interrupts           : Contains the IRQ line for a Rx mailbox
+
+Example:
+
+mailbox0: mailbox@0  {
+       compatible      = "st,stih407-mailbox";
+       reg             = <0x08f00000 0x1000>;
+       interrupts      = <GIC_SPI 1 IRQ_TYPE_NONE>;
+       #mbox-cells     = <2>;
+       mbox-name       = "a9";
+};
+
+Client
+------
+
+Required properties:
+- compatible           : Many (See the client docs)
+- reg                  : Shared (between Application and Remote) memory address
+- mboxes               : Standard property to specify a Mailbox (See ./mailbox.txt)
+                         Cells must match 'mbox-cells' (See Controller docs above)
+
+Optional properties
+- mbox-names           : Name given to channels seen in the 'mboxes' property.
+
+Example:
+
+mailbox_test {
+       compatible      = "mailbox_test";
+       reg             = <0x[shared_memory_address], [shared_memory_size]>;
+       mboxes          = <&mailbox2 0 1>, <&mailbox0 2 1>;
+       mbox-names      = "tx", "rx";
+};