[PATCH v1 1/2] PSCI: Use DT Function ID values only for old versions of spec

Ashwin Chaugule ashwin.chaugule at linaro.org
Fri Mar 21 08:49:19 EDT 2014


On 21 March 2014 06:51, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com> wrote:

>> The main intention of this patch is to separate function ID detection
>> depending on PSCI versions.
>> So, I think the additional functionality of AFFINITY_INFO and
>> MIGRATE_INFO_TYPE should go in as separate patches. Do you agree?
>
> Unfortunately this has the side effect of seemingly adding support for
> PSCI 0.2 while not actually doing so. I fear that people will begin
> using the "arm,psci-0.2" string before we end up implementing code using
> the other required functionality, and it will turn out we can't make use
> of any of it, because it will cause someone's firmware to blow up.

Ah. I've only seen PSCI-v0.2. Didnt know that this stuff was part of
the new additions to the spec.

Ashwin



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