From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: catalin.marinas@arm.com (Catalin Marinas) Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 14:34:03 +0100 Subject: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Add smp booting support for Qualcomm ARMv8 SoCs In-Reply-To: References: <1428601031-5366-1-git-send-email-galak@codeaurora.org> <20150410100529.GA6854@e104818-lin.cambridge.arm.com> <20150414163613.GM28709@leverpostej> <07185B2C-3F37-4E70-9096-1EF5EA8D68CE@codeaurora.org> <20150414211720.GA56647@MBP> Message-ID: <20150415133403.GB26099@e104818-lin.cambridge.arm.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 05:48:48PM -0400, Rob Clark wrote: > Just speaking as an outsider to this topic, but seems like most/all > tablets/phones/etc ship with signed firmware. Which means for most of > the population, upgrading the firmware to a new version which did > support the standard (assuming it existed), isn't really an option on > our devices, any more than fixing buggy acpi tables is on our > laptops.. I wouldn't expect most population to build their own kernels on tablets/phones. And even if you could install a custom kernel, mainline rarely runs on such devices because of tons of out of tree patches (just look at the Nexus 9 patches that Kumar pointed at; even ignoring the booting protocol they are extremely far from an upstreamable form). -- Catalin