Re: Could you support the modules of the coresight drivers?

From: Mathieu Poirier
Date: Mon Jul 06 2020 - 10:36:14 EST


On Fri, 3 Jul 2020 at 01:44, êìê <changki.kim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Hello.
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> I am software engineer in charge of BSP (Samsung SOC vendor).
>
> Recently, Google introduced GKI from Android 11(R) version.
> So we can't modified kernel code except module drivers.
>
> Coresight drivers doesn't support module.
> I need the module support because our SoC should set value to vendor
> specific register to run ETMv4.
> And in GKI, ETM has disabled in recommend defconfig.
> So if we use ETM in Android 12(S), it should support module.
>
> Could you support the modules of the coresight drivers?

There have been multiple patchset submitted to do that, the latest one
last week [1]. I encourage you to review and test the work.

Thanks,
Mathieu

[1].https://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg818583.html

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