Torsten Duwe wrote:

> On Fri, 08 Mar 2019 17:11:21 +0100
> Per Jessen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Guillaume Gardet wrote:
> 
>> > I think /dev/vcio is a downstream feature only. So, not available
>> > on openSUSE kernel which uses upstream kernels.
>> > 
>> 
>> Thanks Guillaume
>> 
>> so, what do I need to do to talk to the raspi mailbox?  I tried
>> creating /dev/vcio myself (majornum 100), but I'm clearly missing
> 
> That's definitely the wrong way. This can only work around a broken
> driver that somehow does not trigger udev.

I was wondering.  Looking at the bcm2835-mailbox driver, I see no char
device being registered - there is another vcio driver out there, but
tere is clearly some overlap with bcm2835-mailbox. 

>> whatever it is that provides that interface.
> 
> A similar patch set has been submitted for sunXi this week. Look
> for code that looks like
> 
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10836377/
> 
> for the broadcom.

Thanks Torsten, I'll have a look. 



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