Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH V3 0/5] firmware: Add support for TI System Control Interface (TI-SCI) protocol driver | From | Tero Kristo <> | Date | Thu, 8 Sep 2016 21:19:36 +0300 |
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On 08/09/16 20:31, Kevin Hilman wrote: > Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com> writes: > >> On 09/07/2016 01:55 PM, Kevin Hilman wrote: >>> Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com> writes: >> >> [...] full mail thread in https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/9/6/747 >> >>>> Overall architecture is very similar to SCPI[4] as follows: >>> >>> Dumb Q: I'm curious about the limitations in SCPI that were found that >>> made TI decided to implement its own version. > > [...] > >> Long story short, investigation was done into what SCPI was providing >> (TI internal ofcourse) and SCPI did not fit our SoC generation needs - > > Thanks for the detailed explanation. Very helpful. > > To be clear, I'm not a proponent of always using ARM "standards" > (especially when it's not exactly clear if it's a standard or a Juno > thing) but I'm seeing several SoCs come out with SCPI derivatives, or > old ARM versions etc., so was just curious about the decision making > process. > > Thanks for sharing, > > Kevin
So, any other comments for this series or shall we still try to get it merged for 4.9? We are -rc5 so it might be too late already and probably better to push this for 4.10.
-Tero
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