Re: [RFC PATCH 5/9] cxl/mem: Find device capabilities

From: Jon Masters
Date: Thu Nov 26 2020 - 01:12:25 EST


On 11/11/20 12:43 AM, Ben Widawsky wrote:

+ case CXL_CAPABILITIES_CAP_ID_SECONDARY_MAILBOX:
+ dev_dbg(&cxlm->pdev->dev,
+ "found UNSUPPORTED Secondary Mailbox capability\n");

Per spec, the secondary mailbox is intended for use by platform firmware, so Linux should never be using it anyway. Maybe that message is slightly misleading?

Jon.

P.S. Related - I've severe doubts about the mailbox approach being proposed by CXL and have begun to push back through the spec org.

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