[PATCH v7 0/4] ARM SMC Calling Convention interface

[Jens Wiklander]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 11:33:55PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 11:20:25PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Tuesday 22 December 2015, Jens Wiklander wrote:
> > > This patch set is based on the Generic TEE subsystem v6 patchset
> > > (https://lwn.net/Articles/662495/) sent out a some time ago. By isolating
> > > the ARM SMC Calling Convention patches that are useful for other purposes
> > > than to support the Generic TEE subsystem some complexity is removed from
> > > that patch set.
> > > 
> > > This patch set adds a common interface to do an SMC or HVC following ARM
> > > SMC Calling Convention. The interface is implemented for both the arm and
> > > arm64 architectures and updates the PSCI driver to use this interface
> > > instead for firmware communication.
> > > 
> > > Kevins previous Tested-by tag isn't included as the changes in the config
> > > variables may affect some of the builds.
> > 
> > I see that you have a lot of people addressed as 'To', which usually
> > means that nobody is going to apply the patches, because none of us knows
> > who should be responsible ;-)

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind next time.

> > 
> > Is the plan still for Russell to pick them up in his tree? Please clarify
> > in the introductory mail what you would like to happen (more review, 
> > apply to some tree, get Acks, ...) and change the recipient list accordingly.
> 
> That is the plan as they are core ARM functionality, but it's now too
> late for them to be applied prior to Christmas and the merge window.
> My tree is now closed to new submissions for Christmas.

OK, thanks for the help so far and merry Christmas. I'll make another
attempt after the merge window has closed then.

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Jens