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SCMI defines two kinds of communication channels between the agent and the platform: one bidirectional 'a2p' channel used by the agent to send SCMI commands and synchronously receive the related replies, and an optional 'p2a' unidirectional channel used to asynchronously receive delayed responses and notifications emitted from the platform. When configuring an SCMI transport based on mailboxes, the current binding supports only mailboxes providing bidirectional channels: in such a case one mailbox channel can be easily assigned to each SCMI channel as above described. In case, instead, to have to deal with mailboxes providing only distinct unidirectional channels, it becomes necessary to extend the binding in order to be able to bind 2 distinct unidirectional mailbox channels to the same SCMI 'a2p' channel. Bidirectional and unidirectional channels support for the SCMI mailbox transport can coexist by carefully considering the effective combination of defined 'mboxes' and 'shmem' descriptors. Signed-off-by: Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230404115026.2828149-2-cristian.marussi@arm.com Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.