Re: [PATCH] firmware: Add device tree binding for coreboot

2014-06-17 Thread Rob Herring
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Stephen Warren wrote: > On 06/16/2014 07:30 AM, Rob Herring wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Julius Werner wrote: > ... >>> Rob Herring wrote: Don't you need need to keep the kernel from allocating this memory by using one of the reserved

Re: [PATCH] firmware: Add device tree binding for coreboot

2014-06-17 Thread Rob Herring
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Stephen Warren swar...@wwwdotorg.org wrote: On 06/16/2014 07:30 AM, Rob Herring wrote: On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Julius Werner jwer...@chromium.org wrote: ... Rob Herring wrote: Don't you need need to keep the kernel from allocating this memory by

Re: [PATCH] firmware: Add device tree binding for coreboot

2014-06-16 Thread Stephen Warren
On 06/16/2014 07:30 AM, Rob Herring wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Julius Werner wrote: ... >> Rob Herring wrote: >>> Don't you need need to keep the kernel from allocating this memory by >>> using one of the reserved memory mechanisms? The recently added one >>> should be able to

Re: [PATCH] firmware: Add device tree binding for coreboot

2014-06-16 Thread Julius Werner
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 6:30 AM, Rob Herring wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Julius Werner wrote: >>> This is just to export a fixed log to userspace (like a DMI table) or >>> the kernel will actually use the data in some way? Based on the link, >>> it looks like the former to me. >>

Re: [PATCH] firmware: Add device tree binding for coreboot

2014-06-16 Thread Olof Johansson
2014-06-13 14:58 GMT-07:00 Julius Werner : >> This is just to export a fixed log to userspace (like a DMI table) or >> the kernel will actually use the data in some way? Based on the link, >> it looks like the former to me. > > I could imagine both. The link is an in-kernel driver that exposes a >

Re: [PATCH] firmware: Add device tree binding for coreboot

2014-06-16 Thread Rob Herring
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Julius Werner wrote: >> This is just to export a fixed log to userspace (like a DMI table) or >> the kernel will actually use the data in some way? Based on the link, >> it looks like the former to me. > > I could imagine both. The link is an in-kernel driver that

Re: [PATCH] firmware: Add device tree binding for coreboot

2014-06-16 Thread Rob Herring
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Julius Werner jwer...@chromium.org wrote: This is just to export a fixed log to userspace (like a DMI table) or the kernel will actually use the data in some way? Based on the link, it looks like the former to me. I could imagine both. The link is an in-kernel

Re: [PATCH] firmware: Add device tree binding for coreboot

2014-06-16 Thread Olof Johansson
2014-06-13 14:58 GMT-07:00 Julius Werner jwer...@chromium.org: This is just to export a fixed log to userspace (like a DMI table) or the kernel will actually use the data in some way? Based on the link, it looks like the former to me. I could imagine both. The link is an in-kernel driver that

Re: [PATCH] firmware: Add device tree binding for coreboot

2014-06-16 Thread Julius Werner
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 6:30 AM, Rob Herring robherri...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Julius Werner jwer...@chromium.org wrote: This is just to export a fixed log to userspace (like a DMI table) or the kernel will actually use the data in some way? Based on the link, it

Re: [PATCH] firmware: Add device tree binding for coreboot

2014-06-16 Thread Stephen Warren
On 06/16/2014 07:30 AM, Rob Herring wrote: On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Julius Werner jwer...@chromium.org wrote: ... Rob Herring wrote: Don't you need need to keep the kernel from allocating this memory by using one of the reserved memory mechanisms? The recently added one should be able

Re: [PATCH] firmware: Add device tree binding for coreboot

2014-06-13 Thread Julius Werner
> This is just to export a fixed log to userspace (like a DMI table) or > the kernel will actually use the data in some way? Based on the link, > it looks like the former to me. I could imagine both. The link is an in-kernel driver that exposes a log through a sysfs node (in a way that has

Re: [PATCH] firmware: Add device tree binding for coreboot

2014-06-13 Thread Rob Herring
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 3:06 PM, Julius Werner wrote: > This patch adds documentation describing a device tree binding for the > coreboot firmware project (www.coreboot.org). It is meant to be > dynamically added during boot and contains address definitions for the > coreboot table (a list of

[PATCH] firmware: Add device tree binding for coreboot

2014-06-13 Thread Julius Werner
This patch adds documentation describing a device tree binding for the coreboot firmware project (www.coreboot.org). It is meant to be dynamically added during boot and contains address definitions for the coreboot table (a list of variable-sized descriptors providing information about various

[PATCH] firmware: Add device tree binding for coreboot

2014-06-13 Thread Julius Werner
This patch adds documentation describing a device tree binding for the coreboot firmware project (www.coreboot.org). It is meant to be dynamically added during boot and contains address definitions for the coreboot table (a list of variable-sized descriptors providing information about various

Re: [PATCH] firmware: Add device tree binding for coreboot

2014-06-13 Thread Rob Herring
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 3:06 PM, Julius Werner jwer...@chromium.org wrote: This patch adds documentation describing a device tree binding for the coreboot firmware project (www.coreboot.org). It is meant to be dynamically added during boot and contains address definitions for the coreboot

Re: [PATCH] firmware: Add device tree binding for coreboot

2014-06-13 Thread Julius Werner
This is just to export a fixed log to userspace (like a DMI table) or the kernel will actually use the data in some way? Based on the link, it looks like the former to me. I could imagine both. The link is an in-kernel driver that exposes a log through a sysfs node (in a way that has already