Re: [PATCH v5 0/5] firmware: tegra: bpmp: Add ACPI and MBWT support

[Thierry Reding]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2026 at 09:59:10AM +0000, Aniruddha Rao wrote:
> This series adds ACPI support to the Tegra BPMP driver and support for
> Memory Bandwidth Throttler (MBWT) controls exposed by BPMP firmware of
> some Tegra platforms.
> 
> The current BPMP driver depends on device tree bindings. This series
> keeps the existing DT path unchanged while adding an ACPI transport path
> for BPMP firmware requests.
> 
> MBWT controls are accessed through BPMP firmware requests. This series
> defines the MBWT BPMP ABI, adds MBWT helper functions, and exposes a
> narrow sysfs interface when firmware reports support for the required
> MBWT requests.
> 
> Aniruddha Rao (5):
>   firmware: tegra: bpmp: Move channel initialization to helper
>   firmware: tegra: bpmp: Add ACPI support
>   firmware: tegra: bpmp: Add the Memory Bandwidth Throttler ABI
>     definitions
>   firmware: tegra: bpmp: Add MBWT BPMP helpers
>   firmware: tegra: bpmp: Add MBWT sysfs interface
> 
>  .../ABI/testing/sysfs-platform-tegra-bpmp     |  48 ++
>  drivers/firmware/tegra/Makefile               |   1 +
>  drivers/firmware/tegra/bpmp-private.h         |  39 ++
>  drivers/firmware/tegra/bpmp-sysfs.c           | 207 +++++++++
>  drivers/firmware/tegra/bpmp-tegra186.c        |  14 +
>  drivers/firmware/tegra/bpmp-tegra210.c        |  13 +-
>  drivers/firmware/tegra/bpmp.c                 | 415 +++++++++++++++---
>  include/soc/tegra/bpmp-abi.h                  | 161 ++++++-
>  include/soc/tegra/bpmp.h                      |   2 +
>  9 files changed, 849 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-platform-tegra-bpmp
>  create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/tegra/bpmp-sysfs.c
> 
> Changes since v4:
> - Move BPMP channel allocation and ping setup/teardown into the
>   SoC-specific init/deinit operations.
> - Add an optional init_providers operation for DT child and provider
>   registration after BPMP communication is established and the firmware
>   tag is read.
> - Add an ACPI BPMP init operation for the BMRQ ping path.
> - Remove ACPI-specific setup and teardown conditionals from the common
>   probe path.
> - Drop the redundant NULL check after device_get_match_data().
> - Explain the transport and provider initialization phases in the ACPI
>   support commit message.
> - Explain why DT registers an incoming MRQ_PING handler while ACPI only
>   sends an outgoing ping request.
> - Describe MBWT bandwidth groups and traffic types with platform data so
>   firmware instance and VC type values can vary between platforms.
> - Document the sysfs hierarchy using platform-defined bandwidth-group and
>   traffic-type names.
> 
> Changes since v3:
> - Update the sysfs ABI Documentation date to September 2026 and target
>   release to 7.4.
> 
> Changes since v2:
> - Rename the non-ACPI transfer helper to tegra_bpmp_transfer_channel().
> - Keep the common BPMP message validation in tegra_bpmp_transfer().
> - Remove duplicate message validation from the ACPI transfer helper.
> - Move the MBWT helpers near probe and document why they are needed.
> - Rename bpmp-tegra-sysfs.c to bpmp-sysfs.c.
> 
> Changes since v1:
> - Dropped the SoC Kconfig patch.
> - Kept the existing DT path unchanged while adding ACPI support.
> - Reworked ACPI matching to avoid a dummy ops table.
> - Added explicit error handling for short ACPI BMRQ responses.
> - Folded MBWT helpers into bpmp.c.
> - Reworked MBWT sysfs into per-traffic bandwidth attributes.
> - Removed software bandwidth range checks.
> - Use NVCLINK consistently in commit messages and documentation.
> - Avoid platform-specific or transport-specific MBWT wording.

Applied, thanks.

Thierry

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