Dear Heinrich, In message <a1b7a877-e950-b09a-a0f6-2c9c9cb7e...@gmx.de> you wrote: > > > To me this sounds very much like what you are adding here (plus a > > few features more). Does it make sense to unify such code? > > It seems you are relating to > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/844oyrqvvb....@sauna.l.org/t/
No, I'm not. I was talking of my own code from many, many years ago. > ramoops in Linux is exactly doing what was suggested in 2009. You can > find the Documentation/admin-guide/ramoops.rst We had this in U-Boot long before that time. It was a key requirement when we added POST support in 2002. > git grep -GHrn 'shared log' finds nothing in U-Boot. So if any part of > the old implementation in U-Boot exists, could you, please, point us to > the coding. The shared log buffer support was added by commit 56f94be3ef63: commit 56f94be3ef63732384063e110277ed89701b6471 (tag: LABEL_2002_11_05_1735) Author: Wolfgang Denk <wdenk> Date: Tue Nov 5 16:35:14 2002 +0000 * Add support for log buffer which can be passed to Linux kernel's syslog mechanism; used especially for POST results. * Patch by Klaus Heydeck, 31 Oct 2002: Add initial support for kup4k board The code was mainly in common/cmd_log.c, but this got heahily rewritten and is now in cmd/log.c ; apparently this got lost (like the original copyright, sic!) when Simon modified / rewrote this driver. For history, try: git log --follow -- common/cmd_log.c > If the original design never made it into Linux and there is an > established Linux interface since 2011, I would plead to eliminate any > remaining non-compliant coding from U-Boot should it exist. I understand what Linus has is one-way, only focussing on crash dump, i. e. it does not allow to pass information from U-Boot to Linux? Also, my understanding is that the changes needed in Linux are pretty small. Maybe Heiko can comment on that... Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, Managing Director: Wolfgang Denk HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de Ken Dodd’s dad’s dog’s dead.