[PATCH v3 0/6] ARM: EXYNOS: Add secure firmware support

Tomasz Figa t.figa at samsung.com
Thu Nov 22 04:33:35 EST 2012


Hi Kgene,

On Thursday 22 of November 2012 15:52:14 Kukjin Kim wrote:
> Tomasz Figa wrote:
> > On Monday 12 of November 2012 09:55:30 Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > > On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 04:39:28PM +0900, Kukjin Kim wrote:
> > > > (+ Russell King)
> > > 
> > > I think there's still an amount of work to do here; it's not a
> > > generic
> > > interface at the moment because it makes some assumptions about how
> > > things are done (eg, it assumes that there _will_ be a CPU boot
> > > register; that is not always true.
> > > 
> > > Moreover, the 'cpu' arguments given seem to be uncertain whether
> > > they're logical CPU numbers or physical CPU numbers.
> > > 
> > > Lastly, where is this interface actually documented?  It's just a
> > > bunch
> > > of code _without_ _any_ documentation.  That means people will
> > > interpret it differently, and it'll get used differently from
> > > platform to platform.
> > > 
> > > Let's have some documentation on this.
> > 
> > Right, I will include documentation in next version of this patchset.
> 
> Any updates on this?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Best regards,
> Kgene.
> --
> Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim at samsung.com>, Senior Engineer,
> SW Solution Development Team, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

I was waiting for some comments about my proposals, but since there is no 
new input I will prepare and post next version today.

Best regards.
-- 
Tomasz Figa
Samsung Poland R&D Center
SW Solution Development, Linux Platform




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