linux-kernel - Re: (subset) [PATCH 0/4] rtc: pm8xxx: fix uefi offset lookup

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Message-ID: <174812376653.1267678.1330291103918803458.b4-ty@bootlin.com>
Date: Sat, 24 May 2025 23:57:24 +0200
From: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>
To: Bjorn Andersson <andersson@...nel.org>,
	Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@...nel.org>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>, Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@...nel.org>,
	Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>,
	Konrad Dybcio <konradybcio@...nel.org>,
	linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org, linux-rtc@...r.kernel.org,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: (subset) [PATCH 0/4] rtc: pm8xxx: fix uefi offset lookup

On Wed, 23 Apr 2025 09:51:39 +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> On many Qualcomm platforms the PMIC RTC control and time registers are
> read-only so that the RTC time can not be updated. Instead an offset
> needs be stored in some machine-specific non-volatile memory, which a
> driver can take into account.
> 
> On platforms where the offset is stored in a Qualcomm specific UEFI
> variable the variables are also accessed in a non-standard way, which
> means that the OS cannot assume that the variable service is available
> by the time the driver probes.
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[1/4] dt-bindings: rtc: qcom-pm8xxx: add uefi-variable offset
      https://git.kernel.org/abelloni/c/b23b91d56863
[2/4] rtc: pm8xxx: fix uefi offset lookup
      https://git.kernel.org/abelloni/c/ead453283279

Best regards,

-- 
Alexandre Belloni, co-owner and COO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com