From: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
To: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Cc: <rjw@rjwysocki.net>, <lenb@kernel.org>, <jeremy.linton@arm.com>,
<arnd@arndb.de>, <olof@lixom.net>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>, <guohanjun@huawei.com>,
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] ACPI/PPTT: Add acpi_pptt_get_package_info() API
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 10:58:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bc7486c6-4081-a9eb-c50c-c91f2c3d26c2@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200130174116.GA57159@bogus>
On 30/01/2020 17:41, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 04:12:20PM +0000, John Garry wrote:
>> On 30/01/2020 11:23, Sudeep Holla wrote:
>>>> I personally would not prefer to add the support when I know it is getting
>>>> deprecated. I am not sure on kernel community policy on the same.
>>>>
>>> OK, the details on the proposal to deprecate can be now found in UEFI
>>> bugzilla [1]
>>>
>>
>> Wouldn't it be a better approach to propose deprecating the field when there
>> is a readily available alternative, i.e. not a spec from a different body in
>> beta stage?
>>
>
> Understandable and valid concerns. It would be helpful if you raise it in
> the UEFI bugzilla. Your concerns will get lost if you just raise here.
ok, thanks. I can do that if and when I can get an account...
>
>> To me, this new SMC support will take an appreciable amount of time to be
>> implemented in FW by SiPs when actually released. And if it requires an ATF
>> upgrade - which I guess it does - then that's a big job.
>>
>
> Again I do understand, please raise it with the SMCCC specification contact
> as listed in the link I shared.
>
I will talk with my FW guys first when they return from CNY.
Cheers,
john
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-31 10:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-28 11:14 [PATCH RFC 0/2] Add basic generic ACPI soc driver John Garry
2020-01-28 11:14 ` [PATCH RFC 1/2] ACPI/PPTT: Add acpi_pptt_get_package_info() API John Garry
2020-01-28 12:34 ` Sudeep Holla
2020-01-28 14:04 ` John Garry
2020-01-28 14:54 ` Sudeep Holla
2020-01-29 11:03 ` John Garry
2020-01-30 11:23 ` Sudeep Holla
2020-01-30 16:12 ` John Garry
2020-01-30 17:41 ` Sudeep Holla
2020-01-31 10:58 ` John Garry [this message]
2020-01-28 11:14 ` [PATCH RFC 2/2] soc: Add a basic ACPI generic driver John Garry
2020-01-28 11:56 ` Greg KH
2020-01-28 13:33 ` John Garry
2020-01-28 12:50 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-01-28 14:46 ` John Garry
2020-01-28 15:20 ` Sudeep Holla
2020-01-28 15:59 ` John Garry
2020-01-28 16:17 ` Sudeep Holla
2020-01-28 17:51 ` Olof Johansson
2020-01-28 18:22 ` John Garry
2020-01-28 19:11 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-01-28 19:28 ` John Garry
2020-01-28 22:30 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-01-29 10:27 ` John Garry
2020-01-28 20:06 ` Olof Johansson
2020-01-29 9:58 ` John Garry
2020-01-28 16:56 ` [PATCH RFC 0/2] Add basic generic ACPI soc driver Jeremy Linton
2020-01-28 17:28 ` John Garry
2020-01-28 19:04 ` Jeremy Linton
2020-01-28 20:07 ` John Garry
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