efi: clean up Kconfig dependencies on CONFIG_EFI

Geert reports that the new option CONFIG_EFI_DISABLE_RUNTIME is user
visible even when EFI support is disabled, which is unnecessary and
clutters the

efi: clean up Kconfig dependencies on CONFIG_EFI

Geert reports that the new option CONFIG_EFI_DISABLE_RUNTIME is user
visible even when EFI support is disabled, which is unnecessary and
clutters the Kconfig interface.

So let's move this option into the existing Kconfig submenu that already
depends on CONFIG_EFI, and while at it, give some other options the same
treatment.

Also clean up a small wart where the efi/ subdirectory is listed twice.
Let's just list it unconditionally so that both EFI and UEFI_CPER based
pieces will be built independently (the latter only depends on the
former on !X86)

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>

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firmware: mediatek: Add adsp ipc protocol interface

Some of mediatek processors contain
the Tensilica HiFix DSP for audio processing.

The communication between Host CPU and DSP firmware is
taking p

firmware: mediatek: Add adsp ipc protocol interface

Some of mediatek processors contain
the Tensilica HiFix DSP for audio processing.

The communication between Host CPU and DSP firmware is
taking place using a shared memory area for message passing.

ADSP IPC protocol offers (send/recv) interfaces using
mediatek-mailbox APIs.

We use two mbox channels to implement a request-reply protocol.

Signed-off-by: Allen-KH Cheng <allen-kh.cheng@mediatek.com>
Signed-off-by: TingHan Shen <tinghan.shen@mediatek.com>
Reviewed-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Curtis Malainey <cujomalainey@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@google.com>
Reviewed-by: YC Hung <yc.hung@mediatek.com>
Reviewed-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220512082215.3018-2-tinghan.shen@mediatek.com
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>

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firmware: cs_dsp: add driver to support firmware loading on Cirrus Logic DSPs

wm_adsp originally provided firmware loading on some audio DSP and was
implemented as an ASoC codec driver. However, the

firmware: cs_dsp: add driver to support firmware loading on Cirrus Logic DSPs

wm_adsp originally provided firmware loading on some audio DSP and was
implemented as an ASoC codec driver. However, the firmware loading now
covers a wider range of DSP cores and peripherals containing them,
beyond just audio. So it needs to be available to non-audio drivers. All
the core firmware loading support has been moved into a new driver
cs_dsp, leaving only the ASoC-specific parts in wm_adsp.

Signed-off-by: Simon Trimmer <simont@opensource.cirrus.com>
Signed-off-by: Charles Keepax <ckeepax@opensource.cirrus.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210913160057.103842-17-simont@opensource.cirrus.com
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>

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drivers/firmware: consolidate EFI framebuffer setup for all arches

The register_gop_device() function registers an "efi-framebuffer" platform
device to match against the efifb driver, to have an ear

drivers/firmware: consolidate EFI framebuffer setup for all arches

The register_gop_device() function registers an "efi-framebuffer" platform
device to match against the efifb driver, to have an early framebuffer for
EFI platforms.

But there is already support to do exactly the same by the Generic System
Framebuffers (sysfb) driver. This used to be only for X86 but it has been
moved to drivers/firmware and could be reused by other architectures.

Also, besides supporting registering an "efi-framebuffer", this driver can
register a "simple-framebuffer" allowing to use the siple{fb,drm} drivers
on non-X86 EFI platforms. For example, on aarch64 these drivers can only
be used with DT and doesn't have code to register a "simple-frambuffer"
platform device when booting with EFI.

For these reasons, let's remove the register_gop_device() duplicated code
and instead move the platform specific logic that's there to sysfb driver.

Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20210625131359.1804394-1-javierm@redhat.com

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drivers/firmware: move x86 Generic System Framebuffers support

The x86 architecture has generic support to register a system framebuffer
platform device. It either registers a "simple-framebuffer" i

drivers/firmware: move x86 Generic System Framebuffers support

The x86 architecture has generic support to register a system framebuffer
platform device. It either registers a "simple-framebuffer" if the config
option CONFIG_X86_SYSFB is enabled, or a legacy VGA/VBE/EFI FB device.

But the code is generic enough to be reused by other architectures and can
be moved out of the arch/x86 directory.

This will allow to also support the simple{fb,drm} drivers on non-x86 EFI
platforms, such as aarch64 where these drivers are only supported with DT.

Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20210625130947.1803678-2-javierm@redhat.com

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firmware: qcom_scm: Allow qcom_scm driver to be loadable as a permenent module

Allow the qcom_scm driver to be loadable as a permenent module.

This still uses the "depends on QCOM_SCM || !QCOM_SCM"

firmware: qcom_scm: Allow qcom_scm driver to be loadable as a permenent module

Allow the qcom_scm driver to be loadable as a permenent module.

This still uses the "depends on QCOM_SCM || !QCOM_SCM" bit to
ensure that drivers that call into the qcom_scm driver are
also built as modules. While not ideal in some cases its the
only safe way I can find to avoid build errors without having
those drivers select QCOM_SCM and have to force it on (as
QCOM_SCM=n can be valid for those drivers).

Reviving this now that Saravana's fw_devlink defaults to on,
which should avoid loading troubles seen before.

Acked-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210707045320.529186-1-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>

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firmware: arm_ffa: Add initial FFA bus support for device enumeration

The Arm FF for Armv8-A specification has concept of endpoints or
partitions. In the Normal world, a partition could be a VM when

firmware: arm_ffa: Add initial FFA bus support for device enumeration

The Arm FF for Armv8-A specification has concept of endpoints or
partitions. In the Normal world, a partition could be a VM when
the Virtualization extension is enabled or the kernel itself.

In order to handle multiple partitions, we can create a FFA device for
each such partition on a dedicated FFA bus. Similarly, different drivers
requiring FFA transport can be registered on the same bus. We can match
the device and drivers using UUID. This is mostly for the in-kernel
users with FFA drivers.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210521151033.181846-2-sudeep.holla@arm.com
Tested-by: Jens Wiklander <jens.wiklander@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>

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Revert "firmware: QCOM_SCM: Allow qcom_scm driver to be loadable as a permenent module"

This reverts commit d0511b5496c03cdbcda55a9b57c32cdd751920ed.

After some time it was noticed that the Tegra18

Revert "firmware: QCOM_SCM: Allow qcom_scm driver to be loadable as a permenent module"

This reverts commit d0511b5496c03cdbcda55a9b57c32cdd751920ed.

After some time it was noticed that the Tegra186 among others
were experiencing problems when making this into a module.

Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>

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firmware: QCOM_SCM: Allow qcom_scm driver to be loadable as a permenent module

Allow the qcom_scm driver to be loadable as a permenent module.

This still uses the "depends on QCOM_SCM || !QCOM_SCM"

firmware: QCOM_SCM: Allow qcom_scm driver to be loadable as a permenent module

Allow the qcom_scm driver to be loadable as a permenent module.

This still uses the "depends on QCOM_SCM || !QCOM_SCM" bit to
ensure that drivers that call into the qcom_scm driver are
also built as modules. While not ideal in some cases its the
only safe way I can find to avoid build errors without having
those drivers select QCOM_SCM and have to force it on (as
QCOM_SCM=n can be valid for those drivers).

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Gross <agross@kernel.org>
Cc: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>
Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Maulik Shah <mkshah@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Lina Iyer <ilina@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>
Cc: Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201106042710.55979-3-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>

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firmware: arm_scmi: Enable building as a single module

Now, with all the plumbing in place to enable building scmi as a module
instead of built-in modules, let us enable the same.

Link: https://lor

firmware: arm_scmi: Enable building as a single module

Now, with all the plumbing in place to enable building scmi as a module
instead of built-in modules, let us enable the same.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200907195046.56615-5-sudeep.holla@arm.com
Tested-by: Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>

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firmware: smccc: Refactor SMCCC specific bits into separate file

In order to add newer SMCCC v1.1+ functionality and to avoid cluttering
PSCI firmware driver with SMCCC bits, let us move the SMCCC s

firmware: smccc: Refactor SMCCC specific bits into separate file

In order to add newer SMCCC v1.1+ functionality and to avoid cluttering
PSCI firmware driver with SMCCC bits, let us move the SMCCC specific
details under drivers/firmware/smccc/smccc.c

We can also drop conduit and smccc_version from psci_operations structure
as SMCCC was the sole user and now it maintains those.

No functionality change in this patch though.

Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Tested-by: Etienne Carriere <etienne.carriere@st.com>
Reviewed-by: Etienne Carriere <etienne.carriere@st.com>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200518091222.27467-6-sudeep.holla@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>

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firmware: qcom_scm: Dynamically support SMCCC and legacy conventions

Dynamically support SMCCCC and legacy conventions by detecting which
convention to use at runtime. qcom_scm_call_atomic and qcom_

firmware: qcom_scm: Dynamically support SMCCC and legacy conventions

Dynamically support SMCCCC and legacy conventions by detecting which
convention to use at runtime. qcom_scm_call_atomic and qcom_scm_call can
then be moved in qcom_scm.c and use underlying convention backend as
appropriate. Thus, rename qcom_scm-64,-32 to reflect that they are
backends for -smc and -legacy, respectively.

Also add support for making SCM calls earlier than when SCM driver
probes to support use cases such as qcom_scm_set_cold_boot_addr. Support
is added by lazily initializing the convention and guarding the query
with a spin lock. The limitation of these early SCM calls is that they
cannot use DMA, as in the case of >4 arguments for SMC convention and
any non-atomic call for legacy convention.

Tested-by: Brian Masney <masneyb@onstation.org> # arm32
Tested-by: Stephan Gerhold <stephan@gerhold.net>
Signed-off-by: Elliot Berman <eberman@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1578431066-19600-18-git-send-email-eberman@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>

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firmware: qcom_scm-32: Use SMC arch wrappers

Use SMC arch wrappers instead of inline assembly.

Tested-by: Brian Masney <masneyb@onstation.org> # arm32
Tested-by: Stephan Gerhold <stephan@gerhold.ne

firmware: qcom_scm-32: Use SMC arch wrappers

Use SMC arch wrappers instead of inline assembly.

Tested-by: Brian Masney <masneyb@onstation.org> # arm32
Tested-by: Stephan Gerhold <stephan@gerhold.net>
Signed-off-by: Elliot Berman <eberman@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1578431066-19600-10-git-send-email-eberman@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>

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firmware: Add Turris Mox rWTM firmware driver

This adds a driver to communicate with the firmware running on the
secure processor of the Turris Mox router, enabling the kernel to
retrieve true rando

firmware: Add Turris Mox rWTM firmware driver

This adds a driver to communicate with the firmware running on the
secure processor of the Turris Mox router, enabling the kernel to
retrieve true random numbers from the Entropy Bit Generator and to read
some information burned into eFuses when device was manufactured:

and to
sign messages with the ECDSA private key burned into each Turris Mox
device when manufacturing.

This also adds support to read other information burned into eFuses:
- serial number
- board version
- MAC addresses
- RAM size
- ECDSA public key (this is not read directly from eFuses, rather it
is computed by the firmware as pair to the burned private key)

The source code of the firmware is open source and can be found at
https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/turris/mox-boot-builder/tree/master/wtmi

The firmware is also able to, on demand, sign messages with the burned
ECDSA private key, but since Linux's akcipher API is not yet stable
(and therefore not exposed to userspace via netlink), this functionality
is not supported yet.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190822014318.19478-3-marek.behun@nic.cz
Signed-off-by: Marek Behún <marek.behun@nic.cz>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

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firmware: add Intel Stratix10 remote system update driver

The Intel Remote System Update (RSU) driver exposes interfaces access
through the Intel Service Layer to user space via sysfs interface.
The

firmware: add Intel Stratix10 remote system update driver

The Intel Remote System Update (RSU) driver exposes interfaces access
through the Intel Service Layer to user space via sysfs interface.
The RSU interfaces report and control some of the optional RSU features
on Intel Stratix 10 SoC.

The RSU feature provides a way for customers to update the boot
configuration of a Intel Stratix 10 SoC device with significantly reduced
risk of corrupting the bitstream storage and bricking the system.

Signed-off-by: Richard Gong <richard.gong@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Alan Tull <atull@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1567516701-26026-3-git-send-email-richard.gong@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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firmware: Move Trusted Foundations support

Move the Trusted Foundations support out of arch/arm/firmware and into
drivers/firmware where most other firmware support implementations are
located.

Sig

firmware: Move Trusted Foundations support

Move the Trusted Foundations support out of arch/arm/firmware and into
drivers/firmware where most other firmware support implementations are
located.

Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>

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drivers: firmware: psci: Move psci to separate directory

Some following changes extends the PSCI driver with some additional
files. Avoid to continue cluttering the toplevel firmware directory
and

drivers: firmware: psci: Move psci to separate directory

Some following changes extends the PSCI driver with some additional
files. Avoid to continue cluttering the toplevel firmware directory
and first move the PSCI files into a PSCI sub-directory.

Suggested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

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firmware: add Intel Stratix10 service layer driver

Some features of the Intel Stratix10 SoC require a level of privilege
higher than the kernel is granted. Such secure features include
FPGA programm

firmware: add Intel Stratix10 service layer driver

Some features of the Intel Stratix10 SoC require a level of privilege
higher than the kernel is granted. Such secure features include
FPGA programming. In terms of the ARMv8 architecture, the kernel runs
at Exception Level 1 (EL1), access to the features requires
Exception Level 3 (EL3).

The Intel Stratix10 SoC service layer provides an in kernel API for
drivers to request access to the secure features. The requests are queued
and processed one by one. ARM’s SMCCC is used to pass the execution
of the requests on to a secure monitor (EL3).

The header file stratix10-sve-client.h defines the interface between
service providers (FPGA manager is one of them) and service layer.

The header file stratix10-smc.h defines the secure monitor call (SMC)
message protocols used for service layer driver in normal world
(EL1) to communicate with secure monitor SW in secure monitor exception
level 3 (EL3).

Signed-off-by: Richard Gong <richard.gong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Tull <atull@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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firmware: imx: add SCU firmware driver support

The System Controller Firmware (SCFW) is a low-level system function
which runs on a dedicated Cortex-M core to provide power, clock, and
resource mana

firmware: imx: add SCU firmware driver support

The System Controller Firmware (SCFW) is a low-level system function
which runs on a dedicated Cortex-M core to provide power, clock, and
resource management. It exists on some i.MX8 processors. e.g. i.MX8QM
(QM, QP), and i.MX8QX (QXP, DX).

This patch implements the SCU firmware IPC function and the common
message sending API sc_call_rpc.

Cc: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
Cc: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@nxp.com>
Cc: Jassi Brar <jassisinghbrar@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Dong Aisheng <aisheng.dong@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>

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firmware: dcdbas: Move dcdbas to drivers/platform/x86

Move dcdbas to the more appropriate directory drivers/platform/x86.

Signed-off-by: Stuart Hayes <stuart.w.hayes@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy

firmware: dcdbas: Move dcdbas to drivers/platform/x86

Move dcdbas to the more appropriate directory drivers/platform/x86.

Signed-off-by: Stuart Hayes <stuart.w.hayes@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>

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firmware: dell_rbu: Move dell_rbu to drivers/platform/x86

Move dell_rbu to the more appropriate directory drivers/platform/x86.

Signed-off-by: Stuart Hayes <stuart.w.hayes@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by:

firmware: dell_rbu: Move dell_rbu to drivers/platform/x86

Move dell_rbu to the more appropriate directory drivers/platform/x86.

Signed-off-by: Stuart Hayes <stuart.w.hayes@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>

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firmware: xilinx: Add Zynqmp firmware driver

This patch is adding communication layer with firmware.
Firmware driver provides an interface to firmware APIs.
Interface APIs can be used by any driver

firmware: xilinx: Add Zynqmp firmware driver

This patch is adding communication layer with firmware.
Firmware driver provides an interface to firmware APIs.
Interface APIs can be used by any driver to communicate to
PMUFW(Platform Management Unit). All requests go through ATF.

Signed-off-by: Rajan Vaja <rajanv@xilinx.com>
Signed-off-by: Jolly Shah <jollys@xilinx.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>

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firmware: arm_scmi: add basic driver infrastructure for SCMI

The SCMI is intended to allow OSPM to manage various functions that are
provided by the hardware platform it is running on, including pow

firmware: arm_scmi: add basic driver infrastructure for SCMI

The SCMI is intended to allow OSPM to manage various functions that are
provided by the hardware platform it is running on, including power and
performance functions. SCMI provides two levels of abstraction, protocols
and transports. Protocols define individual groups of system control and
management messages. A protocol specification describes the messages
that it supports. Transports describe the method by which protocol
messages are communicated between agents and the platform.

This patch adds basic infrastructure to manage the message allocation,
initialisation, packing/unpacking and shared memory management.

Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>

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firmware: arm_sdei: Add driver for Software Delegated Exceptions

The Software Delegated Exception Interface (SDEI) is an ARM standard
for registering callbacks from the platform firmware into the OS

firmware: arm_sdei: Add driver for Software Delegated Exceptions

The Software Delegated Exception Interface (SDEI) is an ARM standard
for registering callbacks from the platform firmware into the OS.
This is typically used to implement firmware notifications (such as
firmware-first RAS) or promote an IRQ that has been promoted to a
firmware-assisted NMI.

Add the code for detecting the SDEI version and the framework for
registering and unregistering events. Subsequent patches will add the
arch-specific backend code and the necessary power management hooks.

Only shared events are supported, power management, private events and
discovery for ACPI systems will be added by later patches.

Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

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License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

- when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
COPYING file license applied.

For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 11139

and resulted in the first patch in this series.

If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930

and resulted in the second patch in this series.

- if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
it (per prior point). Results summary:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270
GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17
LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15
GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14
((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5
LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4
LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1

and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

- when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
the concluded license(s).

- when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

- In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

- When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

- If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
- a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
license ids and scores
- reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
- reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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