From: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>
To: Paul Sherman <shermanpauldylan@gmail.com>
Cc: Samuel Holland <samuel.holland@sifive.com>,
palmer@dabbelt.com, pjw@kernel.org, alex@ghiti.fr,
linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] riscv: smp: fix non-SPINWAIT secondary hart rendezvous for fw_dynamic platforms
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2026 17:32:02 -0600 (MDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56e594a6-83fa-d8d3-b7be-547ee9778326@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <amqsOI7Pdg5uH-bO@got-milk>
On Wed, 29 Jul 2026, Paul Sherman wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2026 at 05:13:56PM -0500, Samuel Holland wrote:
>
> > Why doesn't your firmware do that? Can you fix your firmware?
>
> Is your expectation that platforms exhibiting this behavior should
> be corrected to satisfy the ordered booting contract, rather than
> Linux handling SBI_ERR_ALREADY_STARTED defensively?
For folks running mainline kernels, I think it's reasonable to expect that
they would update OpenSBI to fix a bug in OpenSBI, rather than patching
the upstream kernel to hack around it. Hopefully there's nothing
preventing them from doing that on this platform.
- Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-04 23:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-29 8:34 Paul Sherman
2026-07-29 22:13 ` Samuel Holland
2026-07-30 1:43 ` Paul Sherman
2026-10-04 23:32 ` Paul Walmsley [this message]
2026-07-30 10:16 ` Conor Dooley
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