Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/apple,mailbox.yaml
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Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/apple,mailbox.yaml- Extension
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- 2794 bytes
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- 97
- Domain
- Support Tooling And Documentation
- Bucket
- Documentation
- Inferred role
- Support Tooling And Documentation: configuration, schema, or hardware description
- Status
- atlas-only
Why This File Exists
Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.
- Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.
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- No C-style include directives detected by the generator.
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- No top-level syscall, struct, function, initcall, or export declaration detected by the generator.
Annotated Snippet
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 OR BSD-2-Clause
%YAML 1.2
---
$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/mailbox/apple,mailbox.yaml#
$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
title: Apple Mailbox Controller
maintainers:
- Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st>
- Sven Peter <sven@svenpeter.dev>
description:
The Apple mailbox consists of two FIFOs used to exchange 64+32 bit
messages between the main CPU and a co-processor. Multiple instances
of this mailbox can be found on Apple SoCs.
One of the two FIFOs is used to send data to a co-processor while the other
FIFO is used for the other direction.
Various clients implement different IPC protocols based on these simple
messages and shared memory buffers.
properties:
compatible:
oneOf:
- description:
ASC mailboxes are the most common variant found on the M1 used
for example for the display controller, the system management
controller and the NVMe coprocessor.
items:
- enum:
- apple,t8103-asc-mailbox
- apple,t8112-asc-mailbox
- apple,t6000-asc-mailbox
- apple,t6020-asc-mailbox
- const: apple,asc-mailbox-v4
- description:
An older ASC mailbox interface found on T2 and A11 that is also
used for the NVMe coprocessor and the system management
controller.
items:
- const: apple,t8015-asc-mailbox
- description:
M3 mailboxes are an older variant with a slightly different MMIO
interface still found on the M1. It is used for the Thunderbolt
co-processors.
items:
- enum:
- apple,t8103-m3-mailbox
- apple,t8112-m3-mailbox
- apple,t6000-m3-mailbox
- const: apple,m3-mailbox-v2
reg:
maxItems: 1
interrupts:
items:
- description: send fifo is empty interrupt
- description: send fifo is not empty interrupt
- description: receive fifo is empty interrupt
- description: receive fifo is not empty interrupt
interrupt-names:
items:
- const: send-empty
- const: send-not-empty
- const: recv-empty
- const: recv-not-empty
Annotation
- Atlas domain: Support Tooling And Documentation / Documentation.
- Implementation status: atlas-only.
Implementation Notes
- This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
- Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
- Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.