Re: [RFC PATCH] firmware: scmi: Make SCMI arch independent

On 7/14/26 06:16, Ulf Hansson wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2026 at 5:56 PM Cristian Marussi
> <[email protected]> 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.
>>
>> While I understand dropping the dependency on ARM (I always wanted to do
>> that and test if it worked at all on some otehr archs with QEMU), I am
>> not sure about the whole renaming party ? why is needed just for
>> cosmetic reasons ? it is at the end an arm originated protocol so I dont
>> see it as a being wrong to be named as such even though used by other
>> archs...I have not really strong opinion on this...
> 
> This is certainly not my call to make, but I have to admit that I
> fully agree with the above.
> 
> Usually we don't rename files that indicate a legacy platform name,
> just because a new company/platform wants to make use of it.
> 

I agree.

Guenter