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Date:	Sun, 18 Aug 2013 17:37:00 +0900
From:	Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@...il.com>
To:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>
Cc:	Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@...dia.com>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Tomasz Figa <tomasz.figa@...il.com>,
	Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@....com>,
	Joseph Lo <josephl@...dia.com>,
	Jassi Brar <jassisinghbrar@...il.com>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org" <linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/5] ARM: tegra: add support for Trusted Foundations

On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 6:38 AM, Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org> wrote:
> On 08/12/2013 08:29 PM, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
>> Register the firmware operations for Trusted Foundations if the device
>> tree indicates it is active on the device.
>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-tegra/firmware.c b/arch/arm/mach-tegra/firmware.c
>
>> +void __init tegra_init_firmware(void)
>> +{
>> +     struct device_node *node;
>> +
>> +     if (!of_have_populated_dt())
>> +             return;
>
> That's never false on Tegra, at least upstream.

Will remove, thanks.

>> +     node = of_find_compatible_node(NULL, NULL, "tl,trusted-foundations");
>> +     if (node) {
>> +             const char *tf_version;
>> +             int err;
>> +
>> +             err = of_property_read_string(node, "version", &tf_version);
>> +             if (err != 0) {
>> +                     pr_crit("Cannot read Trusted Foundation version: %d\n",
>> +                             err);
>> +                     BUG();
>> +             } else {
>> +                     register_trusted_foundations(tf_version);
>> +             }
>> +     }
>> +}
>
> I think most/all of that function will be common across all SoCs that
> support the TF monitor. I think you want to move the code into
> register_trusted_foundations() (or a function that calls that) in patch 1?

Agreed. If we push the logic a bit further, we should also have some
platform parameters for non-DT users, along with an
of_register_trusted_foundations() for those who prefer DT.

Thanks,
Alex.
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