Re: [PATCH 03/22] efi: add helper function to get UEFI params from FDT

From: Matt Fleming
Date: Thu Feb 13 2014 - 06:17:23 EST


On Wed, 05 Feb, at 05:03:54PM, Leif Lindholm wrote:
> From: Mark Salter <msalter@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ARM and ARM64 architectures use the device tree to pass UEFI parameters
> from stub to kernel. These parameters are things known to the stub but
> not discoverable by the kernel after the stub calls ExitBootSerives().
> There is a helper function in:
>
> drivers/firmware/efi/fdt.c
>
> which the stub uses to add the UEFI parameters to the device tree.
> This patch adds a complimentary helper function which UEFI runtime
> support may use to retrieve the parameters from the device tree.
> If an architecture wants to use this helper, it should select
> CONFIG_UEFI_PARAMS_FROM_FDT.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Salter <msalter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig | 7 ++++
> drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c | 79 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/efi.h | 9 +++++
> 3 files changed, 95 insertions(+)

Is there a particular reason this change is being added to
drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c and not drivers/firmware/efi/fdt.c?

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Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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