[PATCH v5 04/19] firmware/psci: Add psci_early_test_conduit()

[Catalin Marinas]

On Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 02:19:09PM +0100, Steven Price wrote:
> From: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe at linaro.org>
> 
> Add a function to test early if PSCI is present and what conduit it
> uses. Because the PSCI conduit corresponds to the SMCCC one, this will
> let the kernel know whether it can use SMC instructions to discuss with
> the Realm Management Monitor (RMM), early enough to enable RAM and
> serial access when running in a Realm.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe at linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Price <steven.price at arm.com>

On the code itself:

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>

However, Will has a point and it would be good if we can avoid this
early setup as much as possible. If it's just the early console used for
debugging, maybe just pass the full IPA address on the command line and
allow those high addresses in fixmap. Not sure about the EFI map.

-- 
Catalin