linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/9] serial: Add Tegra Combined UART driver

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Date:   Mon, 29 Oct 2018 11:11:03 +0100
From:   Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>
To:     Pekka Pessi <ppessi@...dia.com>
Cc:     Jassi Brar <jassisinghbrar@...il.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>,
        Mikko Perttunen <mperttunen@...dia.com>,
        Jon Hunter <jonathanh@...dia.com>,
        Timo Alho <talho@...dia.com>,
        Mika Liljeberg <mliljeberg@...dia.com>,
        linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] serial: Add Tegra Combined UART driver

On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 11:04:06AM +0200, Pekka Pessi wrote:
> Hi Thierry,
> 
> What is the use case for the mailbox driver? What kind of entity will be
> there consuming sent messages and sending messages to kernel?

This is currently only used for the TCU. I'm sure there could be other
cases, but we support none of the upstream at the moment. Are you aware
of any others that we need to take into account?

Thierry

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