Re: [PATCH v4 00/21] Add Qualcomm Minidump kernel driver related support

Mukesh Ojha
2023-07-18T05:49:13Z

+ linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org
+ linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org

On 7/15/2023 5:15 AM, Trilok Soni wrote:
> On 7/5/2023 10:29 AM, Trilok Soni wrote:
>> On 7/4/2023 2:27 AM, Linus Walleij wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 1:12 AM Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> My bigger issue with this whole series is what would this all look
>>>> like if every SoC vendor upstreamed their own custom dumping
>>>> mechanism. That would be a mess. (I have similar opinions on the
>>>> $soc-vendor hypervisors.)
>>>
>>> I agree with Rob's stance.
>>>
>>> I think it would be useful to get input from the hwtracing developers
>>> (Alexander and Mathieu) who faced this "necessarily different" issue
>>> with all the hwtrace mechanisms and found a way out of it. I suspect
>>> they can have an idea of how this should be abstracted.
>>
>> Any mailing list you suggest we expand to so that we get inputs from
>> the hwtracing developers and maintainers or just look into the
>> MAINTAINERS file and start an email thread?
>>
>> We are fine to submit the abstract for the LPC in next two weeks, but
>> prefer to have lot of good discussion before it on the mailing list,
>> so that we have code to talk about in LPC.
>
> We have submitted abstract at LPC MC. Let's continue the discussion here
> though.
>
> Mukesh, do you want to expand the lists as necessary to see if other
> soc-vendors are having any inputs here? May be add Exynos or MTK kernel
> mailing lists + linux-kernel? I don't know if anyone will respond or
> not, but let's try.

Sure.

-Mukesh
>
> ---Trilok Soni
>