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From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
To: Scott Branden <scott.branden@broadcom.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 00/15] Add Broadcom VK driver
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 19:38:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e5855e95-dcae-351e-3351-ed1ba9170f7e@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201001012810.4172-1-scott.branden@broadcom.com>



On 9/30/2020 6:27 PM, Scott Branden wrote:
> This patch series drops previous patches in [1]
> that were incorporated by Kees Cook into patch series
> "Introduce partial kernel_read_file() support" [2].
> 
> Remaining patches are contained in this series to add Broadcom VK driver.
> (which depends on request_firmware_into_buf API addition in
> other patch series [2] being applied first).
> 
> Please note this patch series will not compile without [2].
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200706232309.12010-1-scott.branden@broadcom.com/
> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200729175845.1745471-1-keescook@chromium.org/

Disclaimer: I am well aware that it is the complete wild west right now 
as far as accelerators go and that every vendor (that I happen to work 
for, just not in the same group as Scott) is just seeking to get their 
drivers included upstream and hopefully for good reasons.

 From a cursory look however, it sounds like there could be a little 
better re-utilization of standards, standard framework and interfaces:

- about 2/3 of your sysfs attributes should incline you to implement a 
HWMON device, not a complicated one, but anything that indicates 
current, power, temperature, alerts etc. should be considered

- cannot the firmware loading be supported over remoteproc somehow?

- could not the TTY interface be using virtio or an existing UART?

- what is the format of the message over BAR2 that you expose in patch 13?

Is there a reference user-space implementation that you can link to this 
patch submission in case people are curious?

Thanks
-- 
Florian

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-10-01  2:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-01  1:27 [PATCH v5 00/15] Add Broadcom VK driver Scott Branden
2020-10-01  1:27 ` [PATCH v5 01/15] bcm-vk: add bcm_vk UAPI Scott Branden
2020-10-01  1:27 ` [PATCH v5 02/15] misc: bcm-vk: add Broadcom VK driver Scott Branden
2020-10-01  1:27 ` [PATCH v5 03/15] misc: bcm-vk: add autoload support Scott Branden
2020-10-01  4:07   ` kernel test robot
2020-10-01 17:48     ` Scott Branden
2020-10-02  5:36       ` [kbuild-all] " Philip Li
2020-10-01  1:27 ` [PATCH v5 04/15] misc: bcm-vk: add misc device to Broadcom VK driver Scott Branden
2020-10-01  1:28 ` [PATCH v5 05/15] misc: bcm-vk: add triggers when host panic or reboots to notify card Scott Branden
2020-10-01  1:28 ` [PATCH v5 06/15] misc: bcm-vk: add open/release Scott Branden
2020-10-01  1:28 ` [PATCH v5 07/15] misc: bcm-vk: add ioctl load_image Scott Branden
2020-10-01  1:28 ` [PATCH v5 08/15] misc: bcm-vk: add get_card_info, peerlog_info, and proc_mon_info Scott Branden
2020-10-01  1:28 ` [PATCH v5 09/15] misc: bcm-vk: add VK messaging support Scott Branden
2020-10-01  1:43   ` Joe Perches
2020-10-01 18:27     ` Scott Branden
2020-10-01  1:28 ` [PATCH v5 10/15] misc: bcm-vk: reset_pid support Scott Branden
2020-10-01  1:28 ` [PATCH v5 11/15] misc: bcm-vk: add BCM_VK_QSTATS Scott Branden
2020-10-01  2:33   ` Florian Fainelli
2020-10-01 22:12     ` Scott Branden
2020-10-01 22:13       ` Florian Fainelli
2020-10-02 16:54         ` Scott Branden
2020-10-02  4:55       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-10-02 16:52         ` Scott Branden
2020-10-01  1:28 ` [PATCH v5 12/15] misc: bcm-vk: add sysfs interface Scott Branden
2020-10-01  2:30   ` Florian Fainelli
2020-10-01 22:17     ` Scott Branden
2020-10-01  1:28 ` [PATCH v5 13/15] misc: bcm-vk: add mmap function for exposing BAR2 Scott Branden
2020-10-01  1:28 ` [PATCH v5 14/15] MAINTAINERS: bcm-vk: add maintainer for Broadcom VK Driver Scott Branden
2020-10-01  1:28 ` [PATCH v5 15/15] misc: bcm-vk: add ttyVK support Scott Branden
2020-10-01  2:36   ` Florian Fainelli
2020-10-01 22:26     ` Scott Branden
2020-10-01  2:38 ` Florian Fainelli [this message]
2020-10-01 12:24   ` [PATCH v5 00/15] Add Broadcom VK driver Olof Johansson
2020-10-01 22:34   ` Scott Branden

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