Re: [PATCH v3 5/9] firmware: arm_scmi: Make use of FastChannels configurable

From: Sudeep Holla
Date: Fri Jul 01 2022 - 10:55:21 EST


On Fri, Jul 01, 2022 at 03:47:20PM +0100, Cristian Marussi wrote:

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> ... regarding why, I am using personally this indeed for testing with or
> without FCs without having to change the installed FW blob, BUT the reason
> for upstreaming such an option is that FC support is indeed optional by the
> spec so I thought it would have been acceptabel that you could want to
> configure a platform NOT to use them even though the FW implementation you
> are using, maybe across multiple platforms, supports it.

Yes it is optional. But we use only if F/W advertises that it is available,
so no harm if it is not implemented right ? I don't believe it will save
space in the way config is used and I don't want to push all the code
under the config too.

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Regards,
Sudeep