On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Jamie Iles <ja...@jamieiles.com> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 03:19:51PM -0600, Meador Inge wrote: >> 1. Hardware specific bits somewhere under '.../arch/*'. Drivers >> for the MPIC message registers on Power and OMAP4 mailboxes, for >> example. >> 2. A higher level driver under '.../drivers/mailbox/*'. That the >> pieces in (1) would register with. This piece would expose the >> main kernel API. >> 3. Userspace interfaces for accessing the mailboxes. A >> '/dev/mailbox1', '/dev/mailbox2', etc... mapping, for example. > > How about using virtio for all of this and having the mailbox as a > notification/message passing driver for the virtio backend?
This is exactly what we are doing now, and it looks promising. expect patches soon. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
