linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] arm64: dts: zena: Add support for Zena CSS

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Message-ID: <20260205-intelligent-intrepid-robin-df42bd@sudeepholla>
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2026 11:08:18 +0000
From: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@...nel.org>
To: Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@....com>
Cc: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@....com>,
	Debbie Horsfall <debbie.horsfall@....com>,
	Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
	Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@...nel.org>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@...nel.org>,
	Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>,
	Liviu Dudau <liviu.dudau@....com>,
	Lorenzo Pieralisi <lpieralisi@...nel.org>,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] arm64: dts: zena: Add support for Zena CSS

On Tue, Feb 03, 2026 at 12:11:57PM +0000, Cristian Marussi wrote:
> 
> All of this madness was the best way I could find to address the problem
> of supporting such new unidirectional mailboxes in the SCMI while NOT
> breaking backward compatibility in the absence of mandatory naming from
> the start.
> 

You can attribute this to my expecting an overly ideal scenario with
bidirectional mailbox channels across all platforms using SCMI. At the time, I
did not anticipate the range of configurations that rely on unidirectional
channels.

-- 
Regards,
Sudeep