linux-kernel - Re: [char-misc-next 2/2] mei: send OS type to the FW

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Message-ID: <20161110121418.GA12783@kroah.com>
Date:   Thu, 10 Nov 2016 13:14:18 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     "Winkler, Tomas" <tomas.winkler@...el.com>
Cc:     "Usyskin, Alexander" <alexander.usyskin@...el.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [char-misc-next 2/2] mei: send OS type to the FW

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 12:00:29PM +0000, Winkler, Tomas wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman [mailto:gregkh@...uxfoundation.org]
> > Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2016 09:23
> > To: Winkler, Tomas <tomas.winkler@...el.com>
> > Cc: Usyskin, Alexander <alexander.usyskin@...el.com>; linux-
> > kernel@...r.kernel.org; Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>
> > Subject: Re: [char-misc-next 2/2] mei: send OS type to the FW
> > 
> > On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 06:26:09PM +0200, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> > > From: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@...el.com>
> > >
> > > Tell the FW that we are running a sane OS and TPM2_ChangeEPS() is
> > > supported. This workaround was added to support other broken OS and we
> > > need to follow here. The command is sent just once at the boot time.
> > >
> > > Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@...el.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@...el.com>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/misc/mei/bus-fixup.c | 98
> > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >  1 file changed, 98 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/misc/mei/bus-fixup.c
> > > b/drivers/misc/mei/bus-fixup.c index 9e10d86e3887..344a0c99ee44 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/misc/mei/bus-fixup.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/misc/mei/bus-fixup.c
> > > @@ -38,6 +38,9 @@ static const uuid_le mei_nfc_info_guid =
> > > MEI_UUID_NFC_INFO;  #define MEI_UUID_WD UUID_LE(0x05B79A6F,
> > 0x4628, 0x4D7F, \
> > >  			    0x89, 0x9D, 0xA9, 0x15, 0x14, 0xCB, 0x32, 0xAB)
> > >
> > > +#define MEI_UUID_MKHIF_FIX UUID_LE(0x55213584, 0x9a29, 0x4916, \
> > > +			0xba, 0xdf, 0xf, 0xb7, 0xed, 0x68, 0x2a, 0xeb)
> > > +
> > >  #define MEI_UUID_ANY NULL_UUID_LE
> > >
> > >  /**
> > > @@ -69,6 +72,100 @@ static void blacklist(struct mei_cl_device *cldev)
> > >  	cldev->do_match = 0;
> > >  }
> > >
> > > +#define OSTYPE_LINUX    2
> > > +struct mei_os_ver {
> > > +	u16 build;
> > > +	u16 reserved1;
> > 
> > Don't you need to specify the endian-type of these (well for build), as they get
> > written to hardware?
> 
> This is really x86 stuff only (depends on X86), the device lives in
> PCH or SoC,  you cannot really plug it into PowerPC.  So we are
> consciously not using endian-types in the HW interface.

Then just mark them all as little endian and be done with it :)

thanks,

greg k-h