linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ACPI/APEI: Add BERT data driver

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Date:   Tue, 15 Aug 2017 11:22:06 +0100
From:   Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@....com>
To:     "Luck\, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
Cc:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>, Boris Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
        Tyler Baicar <tbaicar@...eaurora.org>,
        linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI/APEI: Add BERT data driver

Hi Tony,

"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com> writes:

> From: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
>
> The ACPI Boot Error Record Table provides a method for platform
> firmware to give information to the operating system about error
> that occurred prior to boot (of particular interest are problems
> that caused the previous OS instance to crash).
>
> The BERT table simply provides the size and address of the error
> record in BIOS reserved memory. In an earlier age we might have
> used /dev/mem to retrieve this error record, but many systems
> disable /dev/mem for security reasons.
>
> This driver provides read-only access to the data via a character
> special device "/dev/bert-data".

There is already a bert driver which prints the error record. Would it
make sense to integrate the character device there instead of creating a
new driver?

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