Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757090Ab0KVSdI (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Nov 2010 13:33:08 -0500 Received: from mail-gw0-f46.google.com ([74.125.83.46]:33362 "EHLO mail-gw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756567Ab0KVSdG (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Nov 2010 13:33:06 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=S3x8VP00iDsir3i74NmMJPzyeFFUYysu8P0PWNWI9NpFA2TMP9GkUEmzLL0vIMeQ57 Ea+i9e4C0rJoi/urVJhxS0U9uUuiH0EajrJKH2lpcn0FpOhkrsI2HTH5lHCP5yFwHQY+ KNnBAkSnNqdo7xxDO2awzrNZbCDE1zc5aka/g= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <4ce85e437577ae827@agluck-desktop.sc.intel.com> <1290391175.2903.132.camel@yhuang-dev> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 10:33:05 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFC] persistent store From: Tony Luck To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Huang Ying , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" , "tglx@linutronix.de" , "mingo@elte.hu" , "greg@kroah.com" , "akpm@linux-foundation.org" , Linux Embedded Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 814 Lines: 19 On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Any tangents with "pramfs: persistent and protected RAM filesystem" > on linux-embedded? That looks nice for building on top on a sane h/w design (a block of non-volatile RAM). My pstore code works with uglier things. The ACPI/ERST interface provides ways to read/write/clear "records" from what might be some NVRAM, but might also be a channel to a service processor ... and ERST is what I'd like to see made usable (without subjecting users to the implementation details). -Tony -- 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/