Re: [RFC PATCH v3 01/12] firmware: arm_scmi, smccc, mailbox: Make shmem based transports optional

From: Jassi Brar
Date: Mon Jun 21 2021 - 00:09:51 EST


On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 7:22 PM Peter Hilber
<peter.hilber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

.....

> --- a/drivers/mailbox/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/mailbox/Kconfig
> @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
> # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
> menuconfig MAILBOX
> bool "Mailbox Hardware Support"
> + select ARM_SCMI_HAVE_SHMEM
> help
> Mailbox is a framework to control hardware communication between
> on-chip processors through queued messages and interrupt driven
>
Isn't this too generic?
Not all platforms, with a mailbox controller, use SCMI as the protocol.

thnx.