Re: [PATCH 0/4] rtc: pm8xxx: fix uefi offset lookup

[Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>]

Hi Alexandre,

On Wed, May 07, 2025 at 09:54:46AM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> Hi Alexandre and Bjorn,
> 
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 09:51:39AM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:

> > This series adds a 'qcom,uefi-rtc-info' boolean DT property to indicate
> > that the RTC offset is stored in a Qualcomm specific UEFI variable so
> > that the OS can determine whether to wait for it to become available.
> > 
> > I used such a property in v1 of the series adding support for the UEFI
> > offset [1], but mistakenly convinced myself that it was not needed given
> > that the efivars driver would need to remain built in. As Rob Clark
> > noticed, this is however not sufficient and the driver can currently
> > fail to look up the offset if the RTC driver is built in or if a
> > dependency of the efivars driver is built as a module. [2]

> > Preferably the binding and driver fix can be merged for 6.15-rc by
> > Alexandre, while Bjorn takes the DT changes through the branch which has
> > the DT patches from v2 (which unfortunately missed 6.15 but may possibly
> > be sent as hw enablement fixups). [3]
> 
> It seems we won't have RTC support in 6.15, but could you please pick
> these up for 6.16 to make sure that the RTC works also when the driver
> is built in?

It's only been two weeks since my last last reminder about this series,
but can you please pick up the binding and driver patches for 6.16?

Bjorn has already sent his DT changes for 6.16, but since these are
fixes he should be able to get them in during the 6.16 cycle.

It would help a lot if the driver changes are in place then.

> > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250120144152.11949-1-johan+linaro@kernel.org/
> > [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/aAecIkgmTTlThKEZ@hovoldconsulting.com/
> > [3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250219134118.31017-1-johan+linaro@kernel.org/
> > 
> > Johan Hovold (4):
> >   dt-bindings: rtc: qcom-pm8xxx: add uefi-variable offset
> >   rtc: pm8xxx: fix uefi offset lookup
> >   arm64: dts: qcom: sc8280xp-x13s: describe uefi rtc offset
> >   arm64: dts: qcom: x1e80100: describe uefi rtc offset

Johan