linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] firmware: Update Kconfig help text for Google firmware

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Date:   Mon, 18 Jun 2018 13:04:44 -0700
From:   Julius Werner <jwerner@...omium.org>
To:     ben@...adent.org.uk
Cc:     Julius Werner <jwerner@...omium.org>,
        Thierry Escande <thierry.escande@...labora.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, pm.debian@...glemail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: Update Kconfig help text for Google firmware

On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 3:05 PM Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk> wrote:
>
> The help text for GOOGLE_FIRMWARE states that it should only be
> enabled when building a kernel for Google's own servers.  However, it
> is now also a dependency for various Chromebook firmware drivers.
>
> Update the help text to reflect this double duty.  Add the qualifier
> "server" to the help text for GOOGLE_SMI, which doesn't appear to be
> useful on Chromebooks.
>
> Fixes: d384d6f43d1e ("firmware: google memconsole: Add coreboot support")
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
> ---
>  drivers/firmware/google/Kconfig | 9 ++++-----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/google/Kconfig b/drivers/firmware/google/Kconfig
> index f16b381a569c..6fda2c5c69e4 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/google/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/google/Kconfig
> @@ -2,9 +2,8 @@ menuconfig GOOGLE_FIRMWARE
>         bool "Google Firmware Drivers"
>         default n
>         help
> -         These firmware drivers are used by Google's servers.  They are
> -         only useful if you are working directly on one of their
> -         proprietary servers.  If in doubt, say "N".
> +         These firmware drivers are used by Google servers and
> +         Chromebooks.  If in doubt, say "N".

nit: Technically, most of the stuff is useful on all coreboot devices,
not just Chromebooks. (Ideally we'd want to factor that out into a
separate drivers/firmware/coreboot, but it's a bit tricky because the
same memconsole frontend is used for both coreboot and a proprietary
Google server BIOS, so it's a little tricky to decide where everything
should go. Nobody had the time to go untangle it yet.)

>  if GOOGLE_FIRMWARE
>
> @@ -14,8 +13,8 @@ config GOOGLE_SMI
>         select EFI_VARS
>         help
>           Say Y here if you want to enable SMI callbacks for Google
> -         platforms.  This provides an interface for writing to and
> -         clearing the EFI event log and reading and writing NVRAM
> +         server platforms.  This provides an interface for writing to
> +         and clearing the EFI event log and reading and writing NVRAM
>           variables.

GSMI is also used by Chromebooks AFAIK. (I think it's sort of become a
general coreboot interface by now as well, although the name still
says Google.)