Re: [RFC PATCH] firmware: scmi: Make SCMI arch independent
Michal Simek <[email protected]> Thu, 9 Jul 2026 17:15:44 +0200
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On 7/9/26 16:14, Sudeep Holla wrote: > 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. I don't think this is going to be a problem if you agree with concept. I can split it per subsystem and send separately that subsystem maintainers will just take it to their trees. Thanks, Michal