Re: [PATCH v4 1/6] driver core: allow stopping deferred probe after init

2018-07-09 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux
On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 09:41:48AM -0600, Rob Herring wrote: > Deferred probe will currently wait forever on dependent devices to probe, > but sometimes a driver will never exist. It's also not always critical for > a driver to exist. Platforms can rely on default configuration from the > bootloade

Re: ARM processor mode, kernel startup, Hyp / secure state

2011-08-24 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 02:51:09PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote: > I think it's important to separate the problems of secure boot with the > problems of installing a hypervisor. Whatever happens in secure world, we can > expect to be dropped at either HYP mode or non-secure SVC mode. Sure, on a dev > b

Re: ARM processor mode, kernel startup, Hyp / secure state

2011-08-23 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 06:18:37PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Yes. But in the future it will do, surely ? I mean, we're working on > bootloader protocols and this part (to do with startup cpu states and > ownership of the various privilege levels) is only part of it. No - at least not yet, and

Re: ARM processor mode, kernel startup, Hyp / secure state

2011-08-23 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 06:17:04PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote: > Maybe we could allow (b) if SoC vendors don't provide a different API > to set the HVBAR. But it means that kernels not aware of this feature > would fail. Oh, does this mean that ARM Ltd are starting to see the light in having a c

Re: ARM processor mode, kernel startup, Hyp / secure state

2011-08-23 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 05:50:10PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Russell King - ARM Linux writes ("Re: ARM processor mode, kernel startup, Hyp > / secure state"): > > We already have kernels which boot in both secure and non-secure mode > > CPUs. There's very littl

Re: ARM processor mode, kernel startup, Hyp / secure state

2011-08-23 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 03:52:25PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > We're looking into porting Xen to the ARM A15 architecture. In this > context, it's necessary to arrange for the Xen hypervisor to be > entered from the boot loader in an appropriate processor mode. > > KVM needs to deal with the same