Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 18 Nov 2013 10:03:37 -0700 | From | Stephen Warren <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ARM: move firmware_ops to drivers/firmware |
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On 11/18/2013 04:58 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote: ... > Of course, trusted foundations interface could be plugged into cpu_ops > on arm64 but I will NAK it on the grounds of not using the PSCI API, nor > the SMC calling convention (and it's easy to fix when porting to ARMv8). > If a supported standard API is used, then there is no need for > additional code in the kernel.
What happens when someone takes an existing working secure-mode SW stack and simply re-uses it on some new ARMv8 SoC. Are you going to force people working on upstream to re-write the secure mode firmware in shipped hardware before allowing upstream kernel support?
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