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Date:   Thu, 1 Jul 2021 11:27:25 +0100
From:   Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@arm.com>
To:     Peter Hilber <peter.hilber@opensynergy.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 06/16] firmware: arm_scmi, smccc, mailbox: Make shmem
 based transports optional
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Hi,

On Thu, Jul 01, 2021 at 10:42:56AM +0200, Peter Hilber wrote:
> On 11.06.21 18:59, Cristian Marussi wrote:
> > From: Igor Skalkin <igor.skalkin@opensynergy.com>
> > 
> > Upon adding the virtio transport in this patch series, SCMI will also
> > work without shared memory based transports. Also, the mailbox transport
> > may not be needed if the smc transport is used.
> > 
> > - Compile shmem.c only if a shmem based transport is available.
> > 
> > - Remove hard dependency of SCMI on mailbox.
> 
> The hard dependency has now already been removed with
> 
>   c05b07963e96 ("firmware: arm_scmi: Add SMCCC discovery dependency in")
> 

I deeply reviewed transport Kconfig approach in V5 in general, making
all transport configurable (y/n), so this patch will be adapted to the new
Kconfig layout annd basically just provide the HAVE_SHMEM feature.

Thanks,
Cristian