Re: [PATCH 0/9] Add support for Microsoft Surface System Aggregator Module

Hans de Goede
2020-11-24T12:00:26Z

Hi,

On 11/15/20 8:21 PM, Maximilian Luz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> N.B.: the following text is mostly a repeat of cover letter from the
> previous RFC for the uninitiated, which can be found at
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-serial/20200923151511.3842150-1-luzmaximilian@gmail.com/
>
> See "Changes" below for an overview of differences between the RFC and
> this patchset. I hope I have addressed all comments from that in this
> version, thank you again for those.
>
> The Surface System Aggregator Module (we'll refer to it as Surface
> Aggregator or SAM below) is an embedded controller (EC) found on various
> Microsoft Surface devices. Specifically, all 4th and later generation
> Surface devices, i.e. Surface Pro 4, Surface Book 1 and later, with the
> exception of the Surface Go series and the Surface Duo. Notably, it
> seems like this EC can also be found on the ARM-based Surface Pro X [1].

<snip>

> This patch-set can also be found at the following repository and
> reference, if you prefer to look at a kernel tree instead of these
> emails:
>
> https://github.com/linux-surface/kernel tags/s/surface-aggregator/v1
>
> Thanks,
> Max

Thank you for your work on this. It would be great if we can get better
support for the Surface line in the mainline kernel.

Since a lot of people have already commented on this series I think that
you have enough feedback to do a v2 addressing that feedback right?

For now I'm going to assume that you will do a v2 addressing the
initial round of comments and not review this myself (IOW I'll review
this when v2 is posted).

Let me know if you see things differently.

Regards,

Hans

> [1]: The Surface Pro X is, however, currently considered unsupported due
> to a lack of test candidates and, as it seems, general lack of
> Linux support on other parts. AFAIK there is an issue preventing
> serial devices from being registered, on which the core driver in
> this series is build on, thus there is no way to even test that at
> this point. I'd be happy to work out any issues regarding SAM on
> the Pro X at some point in the future, provided someone can/wants
> to actually test it.
>
> [2]: https://github.com/linux-surface/surface-aggregator-module
> [3]: https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface
>
>
> Note: This patch depends on
>
> [PATCH v4] platform/surface: Create a platform subdirectory for
> Microsoft Surface devices
>
> which can be found at
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/platform-driver-x86/20201009141128.683254-1-luzmaximilian@gmail.com/
>
> and is currently in platform-drivers-x86/for-next.
>
>
> Changes from the previous RFC (overview):
> - move to platform/surface
> - add copyright lines
> - change SPDX identifier to GPL-2.0+ (was GPL-2.0-or-later)
> - change user-space interface from debugfs to misc-device
> - address issues in user-space interface
> - fix typos in commit messages and documentation
> - fix some bugs, address other issues
>
> Changes regarding specific patches (and more details) can be found on
> the individual patch.
>
>
> Maximilian Luz (9):
> platform/surface: Add Surface Aggregator subsystem
> platform/surface: aggregator: Add control packet allocation caching
> platform/surface: aggregator: Add event item allocation caching
> platform/surface: aggregator: Add trace points
> platform/surface: aggregator: Add error injection capabilities
> platform/surface: aggregator: Add dedicated bus and device type
> docs: driver-api: Add Surface Aggregator subsystem documentation
> platform/surface: Add Surface Aggregator user-space interface
> platform/surface: Add Surface ACPI Notify driver
>
> Documentation/driver-api/index.rst | 1 +
> .../surface_aggregator/client-api.rst | 38 +
> .../driver-api/surface_aggregator/client.rst | 394 +++
> .../surface_aggregator/clients/cdev.rst | 85 +
> .../surface_aggregator/clients/index.rst | 21 +
> .../surface_aggregator/clients/san.rst | 44 +
> .../driver-api/surface_aggregator/index.rst | 21 +
> .../surface_aggregator/internal-api.rst | 67 +
> .../surface_aggregator/internal.rst | 50 +
> .../surface_aggregator/overview.rst | 76 +
> .../driver-api/surface_aggregator/ssh.rst | 343 +++
> MAINTAINERS | 13 +
> drivers/platform/surface/Kconfig | 39 +
> drivers/platform/surface/Makefile | 3 +
> drivers/platform/surface/aggregator/Kconfig | 65 +
> drivers/platform/surface/aggregator/Makefile | 17 +
> drivers/platform/surface/aggregator/bus.c | 424 +++
> drivers/platform/surface/aggregator/bus.h | 27 +
> .../platform/surface/aggregator/controller.c | 2557 +++++++++++++++++
> .../platform/surface/aggregator/controller.h | 288 ++
> drivers/platform/surface/aggregator/core.c | 831 ++++++
> .../platform/surface/aggregator/ssh_msgb.h | 201 ++
> .../surface/aggregator/ssh_packet_layer.c | 2009 +++++++++++++
> .../surface/aggregator/ssh_packet_layer.h | 175 ++
> .../platform/surface/aggregator/ssh_parser.c | 229 ++
> .../platform/surface/aggregator/ssh_parser.h | 157 +
> .../surface/aggregator/ssh_request_layer.c | 1254 ++++++++
> .../surface/aggregator/ssh_request_layer.h | 142 +
> drivers/platform/surface/aggregator/trace.h | 625 ++++
> .../platform/surface/surface_acpi_notify.c | 884 ++++++
> .../surface/surface_aggregator_cdev.c | 299 ++
> include/linux/mod_devicetable.h | 18 +
> include/linux/surface_acpi_notify.h | 39 +
> include/linux/surface_aggregator/controller.h | 832 ++++++
> include/linux/surface_aggregator/device.h | 430 +++
> include/linux/surface_aggregator/serial_hub.h | 659 +++++
> include/uapi/linux/surface_aggregator/cdev.h | 58 +
> scripts/mod/devicetable-offsets.c | 8 +
> scripts/mod/file2alias.c | 23 +
> 39 files changed, 13446 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/driver-api/surface_aggregator/client-api.rst
> create mode 100644 Documentation/driver-api/surface_aggregator/client.rst
> create mode 100644 Documentation/driver-api/surface_aggregator/clients/cdev.rst
> create mode 100644 Documentation/driver-api/surface_aggregator/clients/index.rst
> create mode 100644 Documentation/driver-api/surface_aggregator/clients/san.rst
> create mode 100644 Documentation/driver-api/surface_aggregator/index.rst
> create mode 100644 Documentation/driver-api/surface_aggregator/internal-api.rst
> create mode 100644 Documentation/driver-api/surface_aggregator/internal.rst
> create mode 100644 Documentation/driver-api/surface_aggregator/overview.rst
> create mode 100644 Documentation/driver-api/surface_aggregator/ssh.rst
> create mode 100644 drivers/platform/surface/aggregator/Kconfig
> create mode 100644 drivers/platform/surface/aggregator/Makefile
> create mode 100644 drivers/platform/surface/aggregator/bus.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/platform/surface/aggregator/bus.h
> create mode 100644 drivers/platform/surface/aggregator/controller.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/platform/surface/aggregator/controller.h
> create mode 100644 drivers/platform/surface/aggregator/core.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/platform/surface/aggregator/ssh_msgb.h
> create mode 100644 drivers/platform/surface/aggregator/ssh_packet_layer.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/platform/surface/aggregator/ssh_packet_layer.h
> create mode 100644 drivers/platform/surface/aggregator/ssh_parser.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/platform/surface/aggregator/ssh_parser.h
> create mode 100644 drivers/platform/surface/aggregator/ssh_request_layer.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/platform/surface/aggregator/ssh_request_layer.h
> create mode 100644 drivers/platform/surface/aggregator/trace.h
> create mode 100644 drivers/platform/surface/surface_acpi_notify.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/platform/surface/surface_aggregator_cdev.c
> create mode 100644 include/linux/surface_acpi_notify.h
> create mode 100644 include/linux/surface_aggregator/controller.h
> create mode 100644 include/linux/surface_aggregator/device.h
> create mode 100644 include/linux/surface_aggregator/serial_hub.h
> create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/surface_aggregator/cdev.h
>