Re: [PATCH 0/1] Add IMR driver for Keem Bay

From: Alessandrelli, Daniele
Date: Thu Apr 30 2020 - 15:59:09 EST


On Tue, 2020-04-21 at 17:36 +0100, Daniele Alessandrelli wrote:
> The following is a patch for a new Intel Movidius SoC, code-named
> Keem
> Bay.
>
> Keem Bay needs a driver to disable the Isolated Memory Region (IMR)
> set up by the SoC bootloader during early boot.
>
> If such an IMR is not disabled and some device tries to access it,
> the system will reboot.
>
> Since this driver is SoC-specific and Keem Bay is a new SoC, I was
> unsure of where to put this driver. In the end I decided to create a
> new 'keembay' directory in 'drivers/soc'. I hope that's reasonable,
> if
> not, just let me know.
>
>
> Daniele Alessandrelli (1):
> soc: keembay: Add Keem Bay IMR driver
>
> MAINTAINERS | 5 ++++
> drivers/soc/Kconfig | 1 +
> drivers/soc/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/soc/keembay/Kconfig | 22 +++++++++++++++++
> drivers/soc/keembay/Makefile | 5 ++++
> drivers/soc/keembay/keembay-imr.c | 40
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 6 files changed, 74 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 drivers/soc/keembay/Kconfig
> create mode 100644 drivers/soc/keembay/Makefile
> create mode 100644 drivers/soc/keembay/keembay-imr.c
>

Adding some more people (Arnd and linux-arm-kernel ML) in CC in the
hope of getting some guidance on how to have this patch merged.

I'm a novice, so I wonder if the lack of feedback is because I'm doing
something wrong or if I just sent the initial email to the wrong people
/ ML.

I'd appreciate any help you can provide.
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