[PATCH v5 0/2] ASPEED: Add mailbox driver for AST2700 series

From: Jammy Huang
Date: Wed Jun 25 2025 - 03:34:58 EST


Add mailbox controller driver for AST27XX SoCs, which provides
independent tx/rx mailbox between different processors. There are 4
channels for each tx/rx mailbox and each channel has an 32-byte FIFO.

v5 changes:
- Update document
1. Separate reg from 1 to 2. 1st is tx controller; 2nd is rx.
2. Remove 'Reviewed-by' since the patch has changed.
- Update driver, no functional changes.
1. Update since there is 2 reg base now.
2. Refine reg definitions
3. Add spinlock to protect registers
4. Use bool as return value for ast2700_mbox_tx_done
5. Rename variable from drv_data to dev_data.

v4 changes:
- Update driver, no functional changes.
1. Remove unused variable, rx_buff, in struct ast2700_mbox.
2. Remove unneeded cast on device_get_match_data.
3. Remove the usage of writel/readl_relaxed.
4. Improve readability.
v3 changes:
- Correct document
1. Use 32-bit addressing in dts example property, reg.
v2 changes:
- Update document
1. Correct error in dts example.
2. Drop description for mbox-cell per suggestion previously.

Jammy Huang (2):
dt-bindings: mailbox: Add ASPEED AST2700 series SoC
mailbox: aspeed: add mailbox driver for AST27XX series SoC

.../mailbox/aspeed,ast2700-mailbox.yaml | 60 +++++
drivers/mailbox/Kconfig | 8 +
drivers/mailbox/Makefile | 2 +
drivers/mailbox/ast2700-mailbox.c | 240 ++++++++++++++++++
4 files changed, 310 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/aspeed,ast2700-mailbox.yaml
create mode 100644 drivers/mailbox/ast2700-mailbox.c


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