On Wed, Sep 08, 2021 at 10:41:20PM +0530, Chatradhi, Naveen Krishna wrote: > In all the future server platforms, AMD's direction is the support HSMP > interface, which exposes system management knobs. I know you all think about the future only but there's the past too and there's a bunch of AMD hardware out there which doesn't have that. > > You could make it a separate driver module called amd_hsmp.ko which > > loads only on the appropriate hw and uses amd_nb.c for detection only > > like the other drivers, for example. > > How about, creating a module under drivers/platform/x86/ (lets say > amd_hsmp.c) export an API from here and it can be extended to support all > the knobs that does not fit in an existing frameworks (such as hwmon, etc) > and provide a user space access. > > I can see similar references in the drivers/platform/x86/ directory. That sounds ok to me too. There's also arch/x86/platform/, btw, and I still have to find out what the difference is. :-) Lemme add the platform drivers folks. Thread begins at: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210902174155.7365-1-nchatrad@xxxxxxx Thx. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette
