Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] Documentation: arm: add UEFI support documentation

2013-12-10 Thread Grant Likely
On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 10:29:34 -0800, Roy Franz wrote: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 4:30 AM, Grant Likely wrote: > > On Fri, 6 Dec 2013 11:20:45 -0600, Matt Sealey wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Matthew Garrett > >> wrote: > >> > On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 03:06:47PM -0600, Matt Sealey wr

Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] Documentation: arm: add UEFI support documentation

2013-12-10 Thread Roy Franz
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 4:30 AM, Grant Likely wrote: > On Fri, 6 Dec 2013 11:20:45 -0600, Matt Sealey wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> > On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 03:06:47PM -0600, Matt Sealey wrote: >> Grant suggested I should propose some patches; sure, if I'm

Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] Documentation: arm: add UEFI support documentation

2013-12-10 Thread Grant Likely
On Fri, 6 Dec 2013 11:20:45 -0600, Matt Sealey wrote: > On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 03:06:47PM -0600, Matt Sealey wrote: > Grant suggested I should propose some patches; sure, if I'm not otherwise > busy. > > Maybe the Linaro guys can recom

Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] Documentation: arm: add UEFI support documentation

2013-12-06 Thread Matt Sealey
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 03:06:47PM -0600, Matt Sealey wrote: > >> there's no guarantee that the kernel hasn't been decompressed over >> some important UEFI feature or some memory hasn't been trashed. You >> can't make that guarantee because

Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] Documentation: arm: add UEFI support documentation

2013-12-05 Thread Leif Lindholm
On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 03:06:47PM -0600, Matt Sealey wrote: > By the time we get half-way through arm/kernel/head.S the cache and > MMU has been turned off and on and off again by the decompressor, and > after a large amount of guesswork and arbitrary restriction-based > implementation, there's no

Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] Documentation: arm: add UEFI support documentation

2013-12-05 Thread Grant Likely
On Thu, 28 Nov 2013 16:41:21 +, Leif Lindholm wrote: > This patch provides documentation of the [U]EFI runtime service and > configuration features for the arm architecture. > > Changes since v1/v2: > - Complete rewrite. > - New FDT bindings. > > Cc: Rob Landley > Cc: linux-...@vger.kernel

Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] Documentation: arm: add UEFI support documentation

2013-12-05 Thread Grant Likely
On Wed, 4 Dec 2013 15:06:47 -0600, Matt Sealey wrote: > If your platform has UEFI, then your platform has UEFI - if you built > a multiplatform kernel that needs to boot on U-Boot, then you glued an > EFI stub to it to make it boot. At some point between the stub and the > runtime services driver,

Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] Documentation: arm: add UEFI support documentation

2013-12-05 Thread Grant Likely
On Mon, 2 Dec 2013 13:51:22 -0600, Matt Sealey wrote: > > +UEFI kernel support on ARM > > +== > > +UEFI kernel support on the ARM architectures (arm and arm64) is only > > available > > +when boot is performed through the stub. > > + > > +The stub populates the FDT /chosen

Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] Documentation: arm: add UEFI support documentation

2013-12-04 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 03:06:47PM -0600, Matt Sealey wrote: > there's no guarantee that the kernel hasn't been decompressed over > some important UEFI feature or some memory hasn't been trashed. You > can't make that guarantee because by entering the plain zImage, you > forfeited that informat

Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] Documentation: arm: add UEFI support documentation

2013-12-04 Thread Mark Salter
On Wed, 2013-12-04 at 15:06 -0600, Matt Sealey wrote: > On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Leif Lindholm > wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 01:51:22PM -0600, Matt Sealey wrote: > >> Here's where I think this whole thing falls down as being the weirdest > >> possible implementation of this. It defi

Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] Documentation: arm: add UEFI support documentation

2013-12-04 Thread Matt Sealey
On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Leif Lindholm wrote: > On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 01:51:22PM -0600, Matt Sealey wrote: >> Here's where I think this whole thing falls down as being the weirdest >> possible implementation of this. It defies logic to put this >> information in the device tree /chosen no

Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] Documentation: arm: add UEFI support documentation

2013-12-02 Thread Leif Lindholm
On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 01:51:22PM -0600, Matt Sealey wrote: > Here's where I think this whole thing falls down as being the weirdest > possible implementation of this. It defies logic to put this > information in the device tree /chosen node while also attempting to > boot the kernel using an EFI

Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] Documentation: arm: add UEFI support documentation

2013-12-02 Thread Matt Sealey
> +UEFI kernel support on ARM > +== > +UEFI kernel support on the ARM architectures (arm and arm64) is only > available > +when boot is performed through the stub. > + > +The stub populates the FDT /chosen node with (and the kernel scans for) the > +following parameters: >

[PATCH v3 1/3] Documentation: arm: add UEFI support documentation

2013-11-28 Thread Leif Lindholm
This patch provides documentation of the [U]EFI runtime service and configuration features for the arm architecture. Changes since v1/v2: - Complete rewrite. - New FDT bindings. Cc: Rob Landley Cc: linux-...@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Leif Lindholm --- Documentation/arm/00-INDEX |3 ++