From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752018AbdAYOEC (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jan 2017 09:04:02 -0500 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:35523 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751452AbdAYOEA (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jan 2017 09:04:00 -0500 Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 14:50:37 +0100 From: Jean Delvare To: Sudeep Holla Cc: LKML , "Jon Medhurst (Tixy)" Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: arm_scpi: Add hardware dependencies Message-ID: <20170125145037.14a790c4@endymion> In-Reply-To: References: <20170125143200.0554ad0f@endymion> Organization: SUSE Linux X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.12.0 (GTK+ 2.24.31; x86_64-suse-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 25 Jan 2017 13:38:47 +0000, Sudeep Holla wrote: > On 25/01/17 13:32, Jean Delvare wrote: > > With a name like that, I assume that the ARM SCPI protocol is only > > useful on the ARM architectures. > > > > Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare > > Fixes: 8f1498c03d15 ("firmware: arm_scpi: make it depend on MAILBOX instead of") > > Cc: Sudeep Holla > > Cc: Jon Medhurst (Tixy) > > --- > > Please correct me if I'm wrong. > > I won't say you are wrong but the reason why it's named arm_scpi is > because the protocol was developed by ARM. It doesnn't mean only > ARM/ARM64 needs to use it, it can be used on any architecture for > inter-processor communication using any communication technique > (currently mailbox is the only supported in the driver) OK, thanks for the clarification. In practice, what other architectures are using it? -- Jean Delvare SUSE L3 Support