On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 04:12:20PM +0000, John Garry wrote: > On 30/01/2020 11:23, Sudeep Holla wrote: > > > I personally would not prefer to add the support when I know it is getting > > > deprecated. I am not sure on kernel community policy on the same. > > > > > OK, the details on the proposal to deprecate can be now found in UEFI > > bugzilla [1] > > > > Wouldn't it be a better approach to propose deprecating the field when there > is a readily available alternative, i.e. not a spec from a different body in > beta stage? > Understandable and valid concerns. It would be helpful if you raise it in the UEFI bugzilla. Your concerns will get lost if you just raise here. > To me, this new SMC support will take an appreciable amount of time to be > implemented in FW by SiPs when actually released. And if it requires an ATF > upgrade - which I guess it does - then that's a big job. > Again I do understand, please raise it with the SMCCC specification contact as listed in the link I shared. -- Regards, Sudeep
