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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Expose RPi4'd bootloader configuration
From:   Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne@suse.de>
To:     Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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Date:   Tue, 15 Dec 2020 20:01:54 +0100
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Hi Catalin,

On Tue, 2020-12-15 at 18:44 +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 04:56:20PM +0100, Nicolas Saenz Julienne wrote:
> > Soon to be released versions of RPi4's firmware will take of care
> > passing their bootloader's configuration to the OS by copying it into
> > memory and creating a reserved memory node in the board's DT. In order
> > to make use of this information, this series introduces a new generic
> > nvmem driver that maps reserved-memory nodes into nvmem devices.
> >=20
> > An alternative approach, less nice IMO, would be to create a
> > platform-specific 'soc' driver.
>=20
> What kind of information is this and how would the kernel use it?

Sorry, I wasn't clear enough, the ultimate goal is to use this information =
from
user-space, through nvmem's sysfs interface. The kernel itself has no use f=
or
it.

Regards,
Nicolas


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