linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/1] Add IMR driver for Keem Bay

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Message-ID: <d3f045b05c83d0eca1d5498587493ca485e0a1a0.camel@intel.com>
Date:   Thu, 30 Apr 2020 19:49:36 +0000
From:   "Alessandrelli, Daniele" <daniele.alessandrelli@...el.com>
To:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     "robh@...nel.org" <robh@...nel.org>,
        "Murphy, Paul J" <paul.j.murphy@...el.com>,
        "gregkh@...uxfoundation.org" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Shevchenko, Andriy" <andriy.shevchenko@...el.com>,
        "arnd@...db.de" <arnd@...db.de>,
        "linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] Add IMR driver for Keem Bay

On Tue, 2020-04-21 at 17:36 +0100, Daniele Alessandrelli wrote:
> The following is a patch for a new Intel Movidius SoC, code-named
> Keem
> Bay.
> 
> Keem Bay needs a driver to disable the Isolated Memory Region (IMR)
> set up by the SoC bootloader during early boot.
> 
> If such an IMR is not disabled and some device tries to access it,
> the system will reboot.
> 
> Since this driver is SoC-specific and Keem Bay is a new SoC, I was
> unsure of where to put this driver. In the end I decided to create a
> new 'keembay' directory in 'drivers/soc'. I hope that's reasonable,
> if
> not, just let me know.
> 
> 
> Daniele Alessandrelli (1):
>   soc: keembay: Add Keem Bay IMR driver
> 
>  MAINTAINERS                       |  5 ++++
>  drivers/soc/Kconfig               |  1 +
>  drivers/soc/Makefile              |  1 +
>  drivers/soc/keembay/Kconfig       | 22 +++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/soc/keembay/Makefile      |  5 ++++
>  drivers/soc/keembay/keembay-imr.c | 40
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  6 files changed, 74 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/soc/keembay/Kconfig
>  create mode 100644 drivers/soc/keembay/Makefile
>  create mode 100644 drivers/soc/keembay/keembay-imr.c
> 

Adding some more people (Arnd and linux-arm-kernel ML) in CC in the
hope of getting some guidance on how to have this patch merged.

I'm a novice, so I wonder if the lack of feedback is because I'm doing
something wrong or if I just sent the initial email to the wrong people
/ ML.

I'd appreciate any help you can provide.
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