[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.15 73/82] arm64: dts: qcom: msm8916: Add CPU ACC and SAW/SPM

Sasha Levin sashal at kernel.org
Fri Nov 12 05:43:21 PST 2021


On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 09:40:16AM +0100, Stephan Gerhold wrote:
>Hi Sasha,
>
>On Tue, Nov 09, 2021 at 05:16:31PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> From: Stephan Gerhold <stephan at gerhold.net>
>>
>> [ Upstream commit a22f9a766e1dc61f8f6ee2edfe83d4d23d78e059 ]
>>
>> Add the device tree nodes necessary for SMP bring-up and cpuidle
>> without PSCI on ARM32. The hardware is typically controlled by the
>> PSCI implementation in the TrustZone firmware and is therefore marked
>> as status = "reserved" by default (from the device tree specification):
>>
>>   "Indicates that the device is operational, but should not be used.
>>    Typically this is used for devices that are controlled by another
>>    software component, such as platform firmware."
>>
>> Since this is part of the MSM8916 SoC it should be added to msm8916.dtsi
>> but in practice these nodes should only get enabled via an extra include
>> on ARM32.
>>
>> This is necessary for some devices with signed firmware which is missing
>> both ARM64 and PSCI support and can therefore only boot ARM32 kernels.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Stephan Gerhold <stephan at gerhold.net>
>> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson at linaro.org>
>> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211004204955.21077-13-stephan@gerhold.net
>> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal at kernel.org>
>>
>
>This patch is not useful without other changes that landed in 5.16
>(in particular, the new device actually making use of these nodes).
>
>Can you drop this patch?

Yup, thanks!

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha



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