Re: [PATCH v20 08/22] cxl/sfc: Initialize dpa without a mailbox

Jonathan Cameron
2025-11-12T15:52:38Z

On Mon, 10 Nov 2025 15:36:43 +0000
alejandro.lucero-palau@amd.com wrote:

> From: Alejandro Lucero <alucerop@amd.com>
>
> Type3 relies on mailbox CXL_MBOX_OP_IDENTIFY command for initializing
> memdev state params which end up being used for DPA initialization.
>
> Allow a Type2 driver to initialize DPA simply by giving the size of its
> volatile hardware partition.
>
> Move related functions to memdev.
>
> Add sfc driver as the client.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Lucero <alucerop@amd.com>
> Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Ben Cheatham <benjamin.cheatham@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@huawei.com>
> ---
Side note that it would be really handy when we are down to this last
version or so before merge to have a short change log in each patch
(here under the ---) Saves a bunch of reviewer time checking back on what
we need to look out for when it might be trivial:
such as the patch description change in this one