Re: [RFC PATCH] firmware: scmi: Make SCMI arch independent
Sudeep Holla <[email protected]> Thu, 9 Jul 2026 15:14:32 +0100
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On Thu, Jul 09, 2026 at 03:27:00PM +0200, Michal Simek wrote: > On heterogenious systems like AMD/Xilinx FPGA there is a need to talk to > SCMI server from different architectures than ARM that's why remove > ARM/ARM64 Kconfig dependency with also remove ARM from description and > rename folder to reflect it. > From specification perspective only ARM specific transport layers should be > available on ARM/ARM64 architectures. > > That's why get rid of ARM prefix and description from documentation, file > names, folder names, MODULE description, module names, Kconfig and > comments. > But keep origin Kconfig symbols not to break existing users. > > Hwmon, pinctrl, powercap, regulator, reset, clk and cpufreq scmi drivers > already miss arm prefix that's why synchronize all of them to be without > arm prefix. > Technically it sounds good. We just need to workout logistics to apply this treewide. Preferably a script that Arm SoC team can run may be the ideal solution IMO. -- Regards, Sudeep