Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754285AbaBMLRP (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Feb 2014 06:17:15 -0500 Received: from arkanian.console-pimps.org ([212.110.184.194]:51206 "EHLO arkanian.console-pimps.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753382AbaBMLRN (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Feb 2014 06:17:13 -0500 Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 11:17:02 +0000 From: Matt Fleming To: Leif Lindholm Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, patches@linaro.org, Mark Salter Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/22] efi: add helper function to get UEFI params from FDT Message-ID: <20140213111637.GE20717@console-pimps.org> References: <1391619853-10601-1-git-send-email-leif.lindholm@linaro.org> <1391619853-10601-4-git-send-email-leif.lindholm@linaro.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1391619853-10601-4-git-send-email-leif.lindholm@linaro.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 05 Feb, at 05:03:54PM, Leif Lindholm wrote: > From: Mark Salter > > ARM and ARM64 architectures use the device tree to pass UEFI parameters > from stub to kernel. These parameters are things known to the stub but > not discoverable by the kernel after the stub calls ExitBootSerives(). > There is a helper function in: > > drivers/firmware/efi/fdt.c > > which the stub uses to add the UEFI parameters to the device tree. > This patch adds a complimentary helper function which UEFI runtime > support may use to retrieve the parameters from the device tree. > If an architecture wants to use this helper, it should select > CONFIG_UEFI_PARAMS_FROM_FDT. > > Signed-off-by: Mark Salter > Signed-off-by: Leif Lindholm > --- > drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig | 7 ++++ > drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c | 79 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > include/linux/efi.h | 9 +++++ > 3 files changed, 95 insertions(+) Is there a particular reason this change is being added to drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c and not drivers/firmware/efi/fdt.c? -- Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/