firmware: arm_scmi: Make virtio Version_1 compliance optional

Introduce a compilation option to disable strict enforcement of compliance
against VirtIO Version_1 backends, so as to allow to support also Legacy
VirtIO devices implementations.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211115102910.7639-1-cristian.marussi@arm.comSigned-off-by: Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>

drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/Kconfig

@@ -89,6 +89,21 @@ config ARM_SCMI_TRANSPORT_VIRTIO
 	  If you want the ARM SCMI PROTOCOL stack to include support for a
 	  transport based on VirtIO, answer Y.
 
+config ARM_SCMI_TRANSPORT_VIRTIO_VERSION1_COMPLIANCE
+	bool "SCMI VirtIO transport Version 1 compliance"
+	depends on ARM_SCMI_TRANSPORT_VIRTIO
+	default y
+	help
+	  This enforces strict compliance with VirtIO Version 1 specification.
+
+	  If you want the ARM SCMI VirtIO transport layer to refuse to work
+	  with Legacy VirtIO backends and instead support only VirtIO Version 1
+	  devices (or above), answer Y.
+
+	  If you want instead to support also old Legacy VirtIO backends (like
+	  the ones implemented by kvmtool) and let the core Kernel VirtIO layer
+	  take care of the needed conversions, say N.
+
 endif #ARM_SCMI_PROTOCOL
 
 config ARM_SCMI_POWER_DOMAIN

drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/virtio.c

@@ -459,12 +459,13 @@ static void scmi_vio_remove(struct virtio_device *vdev)
 
 static int scmi_vio_validate(struct virtio_device *vdev)
 {
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARM_SCMI_TRANSPORT_VIRTIO_VERSION1_COMPLIANCE
 	if (!virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_F_VERSION_1)) {
 		dev_err(&vdev->dev,
 			"device does not comply with spec version 1.x\n");
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
-
+#endif
 	return 0;
 }