RE: [EXT] Re: [PATCH v3] mailbox: imx: add support for imx v1 mu

[Richard Zhu <hongxing.zhu@nxp.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@gmail.com>
> Sent: 2019年8月1日 22:47
> To: Richard Zhu <hongxing.zhu@nxp.com>
> Cc: jassisinghbrar@gmail.com; Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@pengutronix.de>;
> Aisheng Dong <aisheng.dong@nxp.com>; Linux Kernel Mailing List
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> Subject: [EXT] Re: [PATCH v3] mailbox: imx: add support for imx v1 mu
> 
> Hi Richard,
> 
> Thanks for the patch. Please always add linux-imx@nxp.com mailing list for imx
> related patches. I missed it.
> 
[Richard Zhu] Okay, roger that.

> Few comments inline.
> 
> Please also update in a separate patch attached to this series the devictree
> bindings doc Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/fsl,mu.txt
> by adding description for mx7ulp-mu
> 
> <snip>
[Richard Zhu] Okay, the binding doc would be added later.
> 
> > There is a version1.0 MU on i.MX7ULP platform.
> 
> space between version and 1.0
> 
[Richard Zhu] Okay.

> > One new version ID register is added, and it's offset is 0.
> > TRn registers are defined at the offset 0x20 ~ 0x2C.
> > RRn registers are defined at the offset 0x40 ~ 0x4C.
> > SR/CR registers are defined at 0x60/0x64.
> > Extend this driver to support it.
> 
> Do you have a little bit of history about MU versioning? So there was:
> 
> * version 0.5 on i.MX6-es
> * version 1.0 on i.MX7ULP
> 
> Next, is this 1.0 compatbile with i.MX8 right?
> 
[Richard Zhu] Only i.MX7ULP has the version 1.0 MU.
i.MX8 has the same version MU that i.MX6-es have.
IMHO, I don't know why design team do it this way.

> Also, can you please rebase your patch on my 2 bugfixes attached?
[Richard Zhu] Okay, no problem. I would send the v4 version out later after rebase your 2 bugfixes patches.
> 
> thanks,
> Daniel.