linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] firmware: Add coreboot device tree binding documentation

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Date:   Mon, 3 Apr 2017 09:32:42 -0500
From:   Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
To:     Thierry Escande <thierry.escande@...labora.com>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
        Stephen Warren <swarren@...dia.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        Julius Werner <jwerner@...omium.org>,
        Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] firmware: Add coreboot device tree binding
 documentation

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 06:11:28PM +0200, Thierry Escande wrote:
> From: Julius Werner <jwerner@...omium.org>
> 
> This patch adds documentation describing a device tree binding for the
> coreboot firmware. 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 compile-
> and run-time generated firmware parameters) and the CBMEM area (the
> structure containing most run-time resident memory regions set up by
> coreboot).
> 
> These definitions allow kernel drivers to easily access data contained
> in and pointed to by these regions (such as coreboot's in-memory log).
> (An example implementation can be seen in the following patch)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@...omium.org>
> Signed-off-by: Thierry Escande <thierry.escande@...labora.com>
> ---
>  .../devicetree/bindings/firmware/coreboot.txt      | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 33 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/firmware/coreboot.txt

Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>