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Re: [PATCH V3 0/5] firmware: Add support for TI System Control Interface (TI-SCI) protocol driver

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On 08/09/16 20:31, Kevin Hilman wrote:
> Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com> writes:
>
>> On 09/07/2016 01:55 PM, Kevin Hilman wrote:
>>> Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com> writes:
>>
>> [...] full mail thread in https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/9/6/747
>>
>>>> Overall architecture is very similar to SCPI[4] as follows:
>>>
>>> Dumb Q: I'm curious about the limitations in SCPI that were found that
>>> made TI decided to implement its own version.
>
> [...]
>
>> Long story short, investigation was done into what SCPI was providing
>> (TI internal ofcourse) and SCPI did not fit our SoC generation needs -
>
> Thanks for the detailed explanation.  Very helpful.
>
> To be clear, I'm not a proponent of always using ARM "standards"
> (especially when it's not exactly clear if it's a standard or a Juno
> thing) but I'm seeing several SoCs come out with SCPI derivatives, or
> old ARM versions etc., so was just curious about the decision making
> process.
>
> Thanks for sharing,
>
> Kevin

So, any other comments for this series or shall we still try to get it 
merged for 4.9? We are -rc5 so it might be too late already and probably 
better to push this for 4.10.

-Tero

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[PATCH V3 0/5] firmware: Add support for TI System Control Interface (TI-SCI) protocol driver Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com> - 2016-09-06 21:10 +0200
  [PATCH V3 3/5] firmware: ti_sci: Add support for Device control Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com> - 2016-09-06 21:10 +0200
  [PATCH V3 2/5] firmware: Add basic support for TI System Control Interface (TI-SCI) protocol Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com> - 2016-09-06 21:10 +0200
  [PATCH V3 1/5] Documentation: Add support for TI System Control Interface (TI-SCI) protocol Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com> - 2016-09-06 21:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH V3 0/5] firmware: Add support for TI System Control Interface (TI-SCI) protocol driver Kevin Hilman <khilman@baylibre.com> - 2016-09-07 21:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH V3 0/5] firmware: Add support for TI System Control  Interface (TI-SCI) protocol driver Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com> - 2016-09-08 16:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH V3 0/5] firmware: Add support for TI System Control Interface (TI-SCI) protocol driver Kevin Hilman <khilman@baylibre.com> - 2016-09-08 19:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH V3 0/5] firmware: Add support for TI System Control  Interface (TI-SCI) protocol driver Tero Kristo <t-kristo@ti.com> - 2016-09-08 20:30 +0200

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