linux/drivers/mailbox/Kconfig
Ashwin Chaugule 86c22f8c9a Mailbox: Add support for Platform Communication Channel
ACPI 5.0+ spec defines a generic mode of communication
between the OS and a platform such as the BMC. This medium
(PCC) is typically used by CPPC (ACPI CPU Performance management),
RAS (ACPI reliability protocol) and MPST (ACPI Memory power
states).

This patch adds PCC support as a Mailbox Controller. As of
ACPI v5.1 there is no provision for clients to lookup mailbox
controllers in a way that Linux expects. e.g. in DT the clients
can list the mailboxes they can associate with in the DT binding
and then provide a unique index to lookup a channel within a mailbox.
Since the ACPI spec doesn't have anything similar, we introduce a
mailbox controller specific API so that when the client calls it,
we know to lookup in the context of a specific controller. This
also helps in keeping a consistent interface across DT and ACPI
for such drivers.

This patch implements basic PCC support using the ACPI v5.1
structures. IRQ mode support will be provided as follow up patches.

Signed-off-by: Ashwin Chaugule <ashwin.chaugule@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Jassi Brar <jaswinder.singh@linaro.org>
2014-11-27 12:51:09 +05:30

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menuconfig MAILBOX
bool "Mailbox Hardware Support"
help
Mailbox is a framework to control hardware communication between
on-chip processors through queued messages and interrupt driven
signals. Say Y if your platform supports hardware mailboxes.
if MAILBOX
config PL320_MBOX
bool "ARM PL320 Mailbox"
depends on ARM_AMBA
help
An implementation of the ARM PL320 Interprocessor Communication
Mailbox (IPCM), tailored for the Calxeda Highbank. It is used to
send short messages between Highbank's A9 cores and the EnergyCore
Management Engine, primarily for cpufreq. Say Y here if you want
to use the PL320 IPCM support.
config OMAP2PLUS_MBOX
tristate "OMAP2+ Mailbox framework support"
depends on ARCH_OMAP2PLUS
help
Mailbox implementation for OMAP family chips with hardware for
interprocessor communication involving DSP, IVA1.0 and IVA2 in
OMAP2/3; or IPU, IVA HD and DSP in OMAP4/5. Say Y here if you
want to use OMAP2+ Mailbox framework support.
config OMAP_MBOX_KFIFO_SIZE
int "Mailbox kfifo default buffer size (bytes)"
depends on OMAP2PLUS_MBOX
default 256
help
Specify the default size of mailbox's kfifo buffers (bytes).
This can also be changed at runtime (via the mbox_kfifo_size
module parameter).
config PCC
bool "Platform Communication Channel Driver"
depends on ACPI
help
ACPI 5.0+ spec defines a generic mode of communication
between the OS and a platform such as the BMC. This medium
(PCC) is typically used by CPPC (ACPI CPU Performance management),
RAS (ACPI reliability protocol) and MPST (ACPI Memory power
states). Select this driver if your platform implements the
PCC clients mentioned above.
endif