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Date:	Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:43:47 +0800
From:	Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>
To:	Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@....com>
Cc:	"linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"lenb@...nel.org" <lenb@...nel.org>,
	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	"Chen, Gong" <gong.chen@...el.com>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>,
	"dle-develop@...ts.sourceforge.net" 
	<dle-develop@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	Satoru Moriya <satoru.moriya@....com>
Subject: RE: [RFC][PATCH]ACPI,APEI,ERST, back end driver for NVRAM

On Sat, 2011-11-19 at 07:04 +0800, Seiji Aguchi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> >According to ACPI 4.0a spec:
> >
> >"""
> >17.5.2.4.1 Error Log Address Range Resides in NVRAM
> >
> 
> Thank you for giving me the information.
> Let me clarify one thing.
> 
> If the busy bit can be cleared immediately, we don't need to
> check busy bit with CHECK_BUSY_STATUS.
> So, we should simply execute OSPM operations as follows.
> 
>  - Writing
>    1. BEGIN_WRITE
>    2. SET_RECORD_OFFSET
>    3. EXECUTE_OPERATION
>    4. END
> 
>  - Reading
>    1. BEGIN_READ
>    2. SET_RECORD_OFFSET
>    3. SET_RECORD_ID
>    4. EXECUTE_OPERATION
>    (END operation is not needed because OSPM requires no platform 
>     support to read.)
> 
>  - Clearing
>    1. BEGIN_CLEAR
>    2. SET_RECORD_ID
>    3. EXECUTE_OPERATION
>    (END operation is not needed because OSPM requires no platform 
>     support to clear.)
> 
> Is this what you expected?

No.  I have different understanding.

Because error log address range resides in NVRAM, the contents will be
reserved even after reboot.  So we do not need read/clear operations at
all, and should place all records in error log address range.

Best Regards,
Huang Ying


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