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nxp,mbox-mailbox

Vendor: NXP Semiconductors

Note

An implementation of a driver matching this compatible is available in drivers/mbox/mbox_nxp_mailbox.c.

Description

NXP Mailbox Unit as Zephyr MBOX.

This NXP Mailbox driver implements Multi-Channel Inter-Processor Mailbox (MBOX) API
around NXP Inter-CPU Mailbox peripheral IP block.

The NXP Inter-CPU Mailbox provides up to thirty-two user defined interrupts.
This driver uses 4 interrupts for mbox signalling mode per each channel,
4 interrupts for mxbox data transfer mode per each channel and 24 as 3 bytes
for data.

Properties

Properties not inherited from the base binding file.

Name

Type

Details

rx-channels

int

Number of receive channels enabled on this instance.
Setting this value to N, will enable channels 0 to N-1, consecutively.
It should be set by the receiver core coupled with this Mailbox instance.

For example, if receiver A wants to Rx on channels 0 to 3, then A must
set rx-channels of mailbox as follows:

  mbox {
    rx-channels = <4>;
    status = "okay";
  };

Legal values: 1, 2, 3, 4

#mbox-cells

int

Number of items to expect in a Mailbox specifier

This property is required.

Specifier cell names

  • mbox cells: channel