Re: [PATCH v5 00/17] Restructure, improve target support for qcom_scm driver
From: Bjorn Andersson
Date: Wed Jan 08 2020 - 02:22:00 EST
On Tue 07 Jan 22:54 PST 2020, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> Quoting Bjorn Andersson (2020-01-07 22:42:53)
> > On Tue 07 Jan 13:04 PST 2020, Elliot Berman wrote:
> >
> > > This series improves support for 32-bit Qualcomm targets on qcom_scm driver and cleans
> > > up the driver for 64-bit implementations.
> > >
> > > Currently, the qcom_scm driver supports only 64-bit Qualcomm targets and very
> > > old 32-bit Qualcomm targets. Newer 32-bit targets use ARM's SMC Calling
> > > Convention to communicate with secure world. Older 32-bit targets use a
> > > "buffer-based" legacy approach for communicating with secure world (as
> > > implemented in qcom_scm-32.c). All arm64 Qualcomm targets use ARM SMCCC.
> > > Currently, SMCCC-based communication is enabled only on ARM64 config and
> > > buffer-based communication only on ARM config. This patch-series combines SMCCC
> > > and legacy conventions and selects the correct convention by querying the secure
> > > world [1].
> > >
> > > We decided to take the opportunity as well to clean up the driver rather than
> > > try to patch together qcom_scm-32 and qcom_scm-64.
> > >
> >
> > Series applied.
>
> Without the change-ids presumably?
Of course.
> I was going to review the patch series tomorrow but I guess no more
> need! ;-)
>
Thanks, I do appreciate the intention :)
Regards,
Bjorn