Re: [RFC PATCH] firmware: scmi: Make SCMI arch independent

[Ulf Hansson]

On Thu, Jul 9, 2026 at 5:56 PM Cristian Marussi
<cristian.marussi@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 09, 2026 at 03:27:00PM +0200, Michal Simek wrote:
> > On heterogenious systems like AMD/Xilinx FPGA there is a need to talk to
> > SCMI server from different architectures than ARM that's why remove
> > ARM/ARM64 Kconfig dependency with also remove ARM from description and
> > rename folder to reflect it.
>
> While I understand dropping the dependency on ARM (I always wanted to do
> that and test if it worked at all on some otehr archs with QEMU), I am
> not sure about the whole renaming party ? why is needed just for
> cosmetic reasons ? it is at the end an arm originated protocol so I dont
> see it as a being wrong to be named as such even though used by other
> archs...I have not really strong opinion on this...

This is certainly not my call to make, but I have to admit that I
fully agree with the above.

Usually we don't rename files that indicate a legacy platform name,
just because a new company/platform wants to make use of it.

>
> ... my concern really is ... wont this full scale rename simply generate
> a lot of un-needed churn for future fixes and/or backporting ?

We have some git magic to overcome most of these problems, but it's
not always straightforward, I think.

>
> Thanks,
> Cristian

Kind regards
Uffe