Noralf Trønnes <nor...@tronnes.org> writes:
> Den 05.05.2015 22:27, skrev Eric Anholt:
>> From: Lubomir Rintel <lkund...@v3.sk>
>>
>> This mailbox driver provides a single mailbox channel to write 32-bit
>> values to the VPU and get a 32-bit response. The Raspberry Pi
>> firmware uses this mailbox channel to implement firmware calls, while
>> Roku 2 (despite being derived from the same firmware tree) doesn't.
>>
>> The driver was originally submitted by Lubomir, based on the
>> out-of-tree 2708 mailbox driver. Eric Anholt fixed it up for
>> upstreaming, with the major functional change being that it now has no
>> notion of multiple channels (since that is a firmware-dependent
>> concept) and instead the raspberrypi-firmware driver will do that
>> bit-twiddling in its own messages.
> ...
>> +static struct platform_driver bcm2835_mbox_driver = {
>> + .driver = {
>> + .name = "bcm2835-mbox",
>> + .owner = THIS_MODULE,
>> + .of_match_table = bcm2835_mbox_of_match,
>> + },
>> + .probe = bcm2835_mbox_probe,
>> + .remove = bcm2835_mbox_remove,
>> +};
>> +module_platform_driver(bcm2835_mbox_driver);
>
> I have tested this driver and the firmware driver booting directly
> from the VideoCore bootloader (no uboot).
> The mailbox driver loads too late to turn on USB power:
Yeah, I have a patch on my branches that returns -EPROBE_DEFER when
trying to get a power domain and not finding the provider. It was
rejected by the maintainers in favor of a proposed solution whose
description I didn't quite follow.
> This silences the warning:
> struct raspberrypi_power_domain raspberrypi_power_domain_usb = {
> .base = {
> .power_on_latency_ns = 600000000,
Oh, nice. Thanks!
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