linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 03/20] firmware: arm_scmi: add basic driver infrastructure for SCMI

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Message-ID: <63af0db6-4d78-aa86-cf96-1ad33a5ed604@arm.com>
Date:   Thu, 11 Jan 2018 14:56:12 +0000
From:   Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     ALKML <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        DTML <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>,
        Roy Franz <roy.franz@...ium.com>,
        Harb Abdulhamid <harba@...eaurora.org>,
        Nishanth Menon <nm@...com>, Loc Ho <lho@....com>,
        Alexey Klimov <klimov.linux@...il.com>,
        Ryan Harkin <Ryan.Harkin@....com>,
        Jassi Brar <jassisinghbrar@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 03/20] firmware: arm_scmi: add basic driver
 infrastructure for SCMI



On 02/01/18 14:42, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> The SCMI is intended to allow OSPM to manage various functions that are
> provided by the hardware platform it is running on, including power and
> performance functions. SCMI provides two levels of abstraction, protocols
> and transports. Protocols define individual groups of system control and
> management messages. A protocol specification describes the messages
> that it supports. Transports describe the method by which protocol
> messages are communicated between agents and the platform.
> 
> This patch adds basic infrastructure to manage the message allocation,
> initialisation, packing/unpacking and shared memory management.
> 

Any chance you could review patches 3-14 ? All the drivers (15-20) are
already acked by the maintainer. I know it's late for v4.16, I want it
to be ready for v4.17 ASAP. It's on the list without much progress for
few months now :(, hence the push. Sorry for the nag.

-- 
Regards,
Sudeep