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On 7/2/2023 1:29 AM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 30/06/2023 18:04, Mukesh Ojha wrote:
>>>
>>>> We don't add layers when they are not needed, and never when there is no
>>>> actual user.  If you need the extra "complexity" later, then add it
>>>> later when it is needed as who knows when that will ever be.
>>>>
>>>> Please redo this series based on that, thanks.
>>>
>>> My bigger issue with this whole series is what would this all look
>>> like if every SoC vendor upstreamed their own custom dumping
>>> mechanism. That would be a mess. (I have similar opinions on the
>>> $soc-vendor hypervisors.)
> 
> Mukesh,
> 
> LPC CFP is still open. There will be also Android and Kernel Debugging
> LPC microconference tracks. Coming with a unified solution could be a
> great topic for LPC. Solutions targeting only one user are quite often
> frowned upon.

LPC is far out and in November. Can we not have others speak up if they 
have the similar solution now? We can expand this to linux-kernel and 
ask for the other SOC vendors to chime in. I am sure that we may have 
existing solutions which came in for the one user first like Intel RDT 
if I remember. I am sure ARM MPAM usecase was present at that time but 
Intel RDT based solution which was x86 specific but accepted.

---Trilok Soni