Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932607AbbDNOo1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Apr 2015 10:44:27 -0400 Received: from smtp.codeaurora.org ([198.145.29.96]:44169 "EHLO smtp.codeaurora.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932176AbbDNOoP convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Apr 2015 10:44:15 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 8.2 \(2098\)) Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Add smp booting support for Qualcomm ARMv8 SoCs From: Kumar Gala In-Reply-To: <245B9FDD-E1B5-41E4-9F24-4D5BB86C450E@codeaurora.org> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 09:44:11 -0500 Cc: Device Tree Mailing List , linux-arm-msm , Will Deacon , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arm@kernel.org, Abhimanyu Kapur , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Message-Id: <97B1A2D4-6F6B-433B-83E6-9C8A95D1BFC6@codeaurora.org> References: <1428601031-5366-1-git-send-email-galak@codeaurora.org> <20150410100529.GA6854@e104818-lin.cambridge.arm.com> <493B15F8-0EBE-4633-9604-671EF403F36E@codeaurora.org> <20150410161052.GF6854@e104818-lin.cambridge.arm.com> <20150413094117.GA2745@e104818-lin.cambridge.arm.com> <245B9FDD-E1B5-41E4-9F24-4D5BB86C450E@codeaurora.org> To: Catalin Marinas X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.2098) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1438 Lines: 33 > On Apr 14, 2015, at 9:21 AM, Kumar Gala wrote: > >>>> >>>> So please come up with proper technical arguments rather than the kernel >>>> should take whatever SoC vendors dreamt of. >>> >>> There is no technical argument to be made. This is about the >>> community and you as maintainer wanting to accept code that complies >>> to your decision or not. >> >> If you are not willing to make technical arguments, I don't have to >> provide any further reasons in this thread. It's your choice. In the >> meantime, the short answer is NAK. I assume you would than NAK someone trying to get support for their Nexus 9 Tablet using a Tegra K1. It appears the shipping code for that device didn’t use PSCI (again guessing because it wasn’t available at the time). https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/tegra/+/android-tegra-flounder-3.10-lollipop-release/arch/arm64/mach-tegra/platsmp.c If so, I find this counter to the Linux kernel communities normal desire to support the most hardware platforms. - k -- Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/