Hi all, Let me begin admitting that we are introducing yet another protocol to achieve same things as many existing protocols like ARM SCPI, TI SCI, QCOM RPM, Nvidia Tegra BPMP, and so on. All I can say is that this new ARM System Control and Management Interface(SCMI) is more flexible and easily extensible than any of the existing ones. Many vendors were involved in the making of this formal specification and is now officially published[1]. There is a strong trend in the industry to provide micro-controllers in systems to abstract various power, or other system management tasks. These controllers usually have similar interfaces, both in terms of the functions that are provided by them, and in terms of how requests are communicated to them. This specification is to standardise and avoid (any further) fragmentation in the design of such interface by various vendors. This patch set is intended to get feedback on the design and structure of the code. This is not complete and not fully tested due to non-availability of firmware with full feature set at this time. It currently doesn't support notification, asynchronous/delayed response, perf/power statistics region and sensor register region to name a few. I have borrowed some of the ideas of message allocation/management from TI SCI. -- Regards, Sudeep [1] http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.den0056a/index.html Sudeep Holla (8): Documentation: add DT binding for ARM System Control and Management Interface(SCMI) protocol firmware: arm_scmi: add basic driver infrastructure for SCMI firmware: arm_scmi: add common infrastructure and support for base protocol firmware: arm_scmi: add initial support for performance protocol firmware: arm_scmi: add initial support for clock protocol firmware: arm_scmi: add initial support for power protocol firmware: arm_scmi: add initial support for sensor protocol firmware: arm_scmi: probe and initialise all the supported protocols Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/arm,scmi.txt | 193 +++++ drivers/firmware/Kconfig | 21 + drivers/firmware/Makefile | 1 + drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/Makefile | 2 + drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/base.c | 290 +++++++ drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/clock.c | 340 +++++++++ drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/common.h | 127 ++++ drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/driver.c | 832 +++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/perf.c | 398 ++++++++++ drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/power.c | 237 ++++++ drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/sensors.c | 269 +++++++ include/linux/scmi_protocol.h | 160 ++++ 12 files changed, 2870 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/arm,scmi.txt create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/Makefile create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/base.c create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/clock.c create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/common.h create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/driver.c create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/perf.c create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/power.c create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/sensors.c create mode 100644 include/linux/scmi_protocol.h -- 2.7.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
