Re: [PATCH RFC v3 00/17] riscv: add initial Zhihe A210 support using SCMI clocks and resets

From: Han Gao <rabenda.cn@gmail.com>
To: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
Cc: "Han Gao" <rabenda.cn@gmail.com>,
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	"Cristian Marussi" <cristian.marussi@arm.com>,
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	"Rob Herring" <robh@kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v3 00/17] riscv: add initial Zhihe A210 support using SCMI clocks and resets
Date: Wed,  4 Nov 2026 22:00:30 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261104140031.1172491-1-rabenda.cn@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9b99c531-1977-4bc1-8105-bd9c3e129951@kernel.org>

Hi, Krzysztof

On Wed, 4 Nov 2026 09:24:15 +0100 Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org> wrote:

> On 02/11/2026 20:45, Han Gao wrote:
> > This adds initial support for the Zhihe A210 SoC and the Melon Pi V1
> > and V2 boards.
> > 
> > The A210 has four C908V and four C920V2 cores, plus an E902 management
> > core. The E902 firmware handles clocks, resets, power, the PMIC and
> > CPU DVFS, so Linux uses SCMI for clocks and resets. The only new SCMI
> > piece is the mailbox to the E902. [2] explains why I picked SCMI over
> > RPMI.
> > 
> Considering how vulab@iscas.ac.cn is ignoring reviews/comments and spams
> with a lot of unthreaded emails, completely disregarding any tries of
> contact over last 1.5 months, shall we ignore all contributions from
> @iscas.ac.cn?
> 
> Maybe this will be the only way to actually be heard?

Apologies, I am unable to communicate directly with the team at vulab,
but I have passed the relevant information on to them;
I trust they will handle the matter appropriately.

Thanks,
Han

> 
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof
> 
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