[PATCH v4 00/13] arm64/firmware: Software Delegated Exception Interface
Will Deacon
will.deacon at arm.com
Wed Oct 18 10:16:15 PDT 2017
Hi James,
On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 06:44:19PM +0100, James Morse wrote:
> The Software Delegated Exception Interface (SDEI) is an ARM specification
> for registering callbacks from the platform firmware into the OS.
> This is intended to be used to implement firmware-first RAS notifications,
> but also supports vendor-defined events and binding IRQs as events.
>
> The document is here:
> http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.den0054a/ARM_DEN0054A_Software_Delegated_Exception_Interface.pdf
>
> I anticpate once reviewed this series will go via the arm-soc tree, as the
> bulk of the code is under /drivers/firmware/.
Given the close coupling with the arch code, I'm actually fine taking this
all via arm64 so save it being spread across two merge windows. The driver
code is a new file, so the scope for conflicts is minimal.
Will
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