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

[Guenter Roeck]

On 7/14/26 06:16, Ulf Hansson wrote:
> 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.

I agree.

Guenter