On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 7:37 PM, Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.anders...@sonymobile.com> wrote:
> This driver exposed the Qualcomm Shared Memory State Machine bits as > GPIOs to the system. > > Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.anders...@sonymobile.com> (...) > +/* > + * This driver implements the Qualcomm Shared Memory State Machine, a > mechanism > + * for communicating single bit state information to remote processors. > + * > + * The implementation is based on two sections of shared memory; the first > + * holding the state bits and the second holding a matrix of subscription > bits. > + * > + * The state bits are structured in entries of 32 bits, each belonging to one > + * system in the SoC. The entry belonging to the local system is considered > + * read-write, while the rest should be considered read-only. > + * > + * The subscription matrix consists of N bitmaps per entry, denoting interest > + * in updates of the entry for each of the N hosts. Upon updating a state bit > + * each host's subscription bitmap should be queried and the remote system > + * should be interrupted if they request so. > + * > + * The subscription matrix is laid out in entry-major order: > + * entry0: [host0 ... hostN] > + * . > + * . > + * entryM: [host0 ... hostN] > + * > + * A third, optional, shared memory region might contain information > regarding > + * the number of entries in the state bitmap as well as number of columns in > + * the subscription matrix. > + */ This does seem like a real bad fit to GPIO for me, sorry. IMO this is drivers/soc/qcom, using regmap and possibly regmap IRQs-material. Yours, Linus Walleij -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
