Re: [PATCH] PCI: ACPI: Fix ThunderX PEM initialization

[Jon Masters <jcm@jonmasters.org>]

Hi Vadim,

Thanks for your followup and attention to this matter. More below.

On 03/15/2017 07:33 AM, Vadim Lomovtsev wrote:

>> The upstream Linux kernel contains a quirk matching entry that looks for
>> "THRX". Therefore, you have already agreed (as of at least January) that
>> this is the prefix that you will use in any firmware updates to support
>> the latest upstream Linux kernel. Please register this prefix promptly.
> 
> And from what I know for now - we wont going to register this
> since we have already regsitered "CAV" prefix for that. And this was the part
> of our discussion also.
> 
> We had a bit long review of proper implementation of legacy firmware support,
> so my apologise on that.
> 
> Please take a look at link to the patchset posted by Tomasz.
> https://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg568741.html

I'll let others comment on the suitability of taking that for upstream.

>>>> So the FW will be updated accordingly.
>>
>> Indeed.
> 
> Yes, it is now contains "CAVxxx" as _HID for device config object.

Which is different from the version that was merged into upstream. That
should never have happened. It will never happen again. I have spent some
time over the past few days ensuring folks understand that I will not
allow a repeat of this to occur the next time around. We will have
platforms that are bulletproof and supported by upstream with any
errata fixes in a very carefully controlled manner. There will
under no circumstances ever be a situation like this again.

>> The version Bjorn merged looks for "THRX". This is the version that you will
>> use, and you will promptly register that prefix with UEFI and provide fixes
>> for existing firmware to correctly use the solution that is upstream.
> 
> Cavium FW is updated accordingly to use already registered prefix.
> For existent FW legacy support is posted by Tomasz.

I'm watching this to ensure it's cleaned up properly.

Jon.