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Date:   Mon, 21 Jun 2021 09:54:31 +0100
From:   Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
To:     Jassi Brar <jassisinghbrar@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 01/12] firmware: arm_scmi, smccc, mailbox: Make
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On Sun, Jun 20, 2021 at 11:09:21PM -0500, Jassi Brar wrote:
> On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 7:22 PM Peter Hilber
> <peter.hilber@opensynergy.com> 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.
>

Yikes! I agree Jassi, this looks super hack.

-- 
Regards,
Sudeep