Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] soc: nuvoton: add NPCM BPC driver

[Tomer Maimon]

Hi Arnd,

Thanks for your comments.

On Thu, 14 Dec 2023 at 14:44, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2023, at 20:05, Tomer Maimon wrote:
> > Add Nuvoton BMC NPCM BIOS post code (BPC) driver.
> >
> > The NPCM BPC monitoring two configurable I/O address written by the host
> > on the bus.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Tomer Maimon <tmaimon77@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/soc/nuvoton/Kconfig    |   9 +
> >  drivers/soc/nuvoton/Makefile   |   1 +
> >  drivers/soc/nuvoton/npcm-bpc.c | 387 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  3 files changed, 397 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/soc/nuvoton/npcm-bpc.c
>
> I try hard to avoid having user interfaces in drivers/soc/, that
> subsystem should primarily be used for things that don't have an
> existing subsystem in the kernel and are used by other in-kernel
> drivers but don't export hteir own misc device.
>
> > diff --git a/drivers/soc/nuvoton/Kconfig b/drivers/soc/nuvoton/Kconfig
> > index d5102f5f0c28..ebd162633942 100644
> > --- a/drivers/soc/nuvoton/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/soc/nuvoton/Kconfig
> > @@ -2,6 +2,15 @@
> >
> >  menu "NUVOTON SoC drivers"
> >
> > +config NPCM_BPC
> > +     tristate "NPCM BIOS Post Code support"
> > +     depends on (ARCH_NPCM || COMPILE_TEST)
> > +     help
> > +       Provides NPCM driver to control the BIOS Post Code
> > +       interface which allows the BMC to monitor and save
> > +       the data written by the host to an arbitrary I/O port,
> > +       the BPC is connected to the host thourgh LPC or eSPI bus.
> > +
>
> This one in particular looks like this might be implemented
> by more than one BMC type, it's a fairly generic functionality.
>
> Have you talked to the other maintainers of SoCs used in
> OpenBMC about coming up with a common interface?
Yes, Both Nuvoton and Aspeed use the same user-facing code to manage
the host snooping.
https://github.com/openbmc/phosphor-host-postd
>
> > +#define DEVICE_NAME  "npcm-bpc"
Will do.
>
> [nitpicking] No need for macros like this one, open-coding the
> string is usually more readable.
>
>     Arnd

Thanks,

Tomer