Re: [RFC PATCH 5/8] dt-bindings: mailbox: ti,message-manager: Add support for secure proxy threads
From: Rob Herring
Date: Tue Jun 12 2018 - 17:11:38 EST
On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 01:16:26AM -0500, Nishanth Menon wrote:
> Secure Proxy is another communication scheme in Texas Instrument's
> devices intended to provide an unique communication path from various
> processors in the System on Chip(SoC) to a central System Controller.
>
> Secure proxy is, in effect, an evolution of current generation Message
> Manager hardware block found in K2G devices. However the following
> changes have taken place:
>
> Secure Proxy instance exposes "threads" or "proxies" which is
> primary representation of "a" communication channel. Each thread is
> preconfigured by System controller configuration based on SoC usage
> requirements. Secure proxy by itself represents a single "queue" of
> communication but allows the proxies to be independently operated.
>
> Each Secure proxy thread can uniquely have their own error and threshold
> interrupts allowing for more fine control of IRQ handling.
>
> Provide an hardware description of the same for device tree
> representation.
>
> See AM65x Technical Reference Manual (SPRUID7, April 2018)
> for further details: http://www.ti.com/lit/pdf/spruid7
>
> Signed-off-by: Nishanth Menon <nm@xxxxxx>
> ---
> .../bindings/mailbox/ti,message-manager.txt | 58 +++++++++++++++++++---
> 1 file changed, 50 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/ti,message-manager.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/ti,message-manager.txt
> index ebf0e3710cee..de796e90cac6 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/ti,message-manager.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/ti,message-manager.txt
> @@ -7,22 +7,40 @@ manager is broken up into queues in different address regions that are called
> "proxies" - each instance is unidirectional and is instantiated at SoC
> integration level to indicate receive or transmit path.
>
> +This can also be used to describe Texas Instrument's Secure Proxy
> +controller that allows for individually configurable "threads" or
> +"proxies" which allow for independent communication scheme.
There seems to be very little re-use here. I think I would make this
its own doc.
Rob