Re: [PATCH v4 00/21] Add Qualcomm Minidump kernel driver related support

[Mukesh Ojha]

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On 7/15/2023 5:15 AM, Trilok Soni wrote:
> On 7/5/2023 10:29 AM, Trilok Soni wrote:
> > On 7/4/2023 2:27 AM, Linus Walleij wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 1:12 AM Rob Herring <robh+dt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > > My bigger issue with this whole series is what would this all look
> > > > like if every SoC vendor upstreamed their own custom dumping
> > > > mechanism. That would be a mess. (I have similar opinions on the
> > > > $soc-vendor hypervisors.)
> > >
> > > I agree with Rob's stance.
> > >
> > > I think it would be useful to get input from the hwtracing developers
> > > (Alexander and Mathieu) who faced this "necessarily different" issue
> > > with all the hwtrace mechanisms and found a way out of it. I suspect
> > > they can have an idea of how this should be abstracted.
> >
> > Any mailing list you suggest we expand to so that we get inputs from 
> > the hwtracing developers and maintainers or just look into the 
> > MAINTAINERS file and start an email thread?
> >
> > We are fine to submit the abstract for the LPC in next two weeks, but 
> > prefer to have lot of good discussion before it on the mailing list, 
> > so that we have code to talk about in LPC.
>
> We have submitted abstract at LPC MC. Let's continue the discussion here 
> though.
>
> Mukesh, do you want to expand the lists as necessary to see if other 
> soc-vendors are having any inputs here? May be add Exynos or MTK kernel 
> mailing lists + linux-kernel? I don't know if anyone will respond or 
> not, but let's try.

Sure.

-Mukesh
> ---Trilok Soni