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From: rjones@redhat.com (Richard W.M. Jones)
To: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
Subject: SBI extension proposal
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2018 11:25:28 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181101112528.GH27120@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+h06zjY86e5UHa9HzSFvKNkT_oMz7sQWkBQY8ufg6x25CmsKQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 12:03:49PM +0100, Philipp Hug wrote:
> Am Do., 1. Nov. 2018 um 10:46 Uhr schrieb Richard W.M. Jones
> <rjones@redhat.com>:
> >
> > I agree.  Please try not to make things that depend on DT, as it's a
> > Linux-only description which isn't suitable for other OSes and has a
> > poorly defined ABI.
> >
> You don't have to depend on DT. If you implement ACPI you'd put this
> information in ACPI as well as you do with other information about the
> platform.
> What's the advantage of putting static information into an SBI call
> instead of putting it in DT, ACPI, ...?

You only have to put it in one place.

Rich.

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From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
To: Philipp Hug <philipp@hug.cx>
Cc: mark.rutland@arm.com, hch@infradead.org, Damien.LeMoal@wdc.com,
	olof.johansson@gmail.com, andrew@sifive.com,
	alankao@andestech.com, anup@brainfault.org,
	Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>,
	zong@andestech.com, atish.patra@wdc.com, mjc@sifive.com,
	arnd@arndb.de, paul.walmsley@sifive.com,
	linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, abner.chang@hpe.com,
	vincentc@andestech.com, David.Abdurachmanov@cern.ch
Subject: Re: SBI extension proposal
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2018 11:25:28 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181101112528.GH27120@redhat.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <20181101112528.H1i5m_O1OwEZmeGbCaLL2YcyH_9GuF_CGF4i-M1YeCE@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+h06zjY86e5UHa9HzSFvKNkT_oMz7sQWkBQY8ufg6x25CmsKQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 12:03:49PM +0100, Philipp Hug wrote:
> Am Do., 1. Nov. 2018 um 10:46 Uhr schrieb Richard W.M. Jones
> <rjones@redhat.com>:
> >
> > I agree.  Please try not to make things that depend on DT, as it's a
> > Linux-only description which isn't suitable for other OSes and has a
> > poorly defined ABI.
> >
> You don't have to depend on DT. If you implement ACPI you'd put this
> information in ACPI as well as you do with other information about the
> platform.
> What's the advantage of putting static information into an SBI call
> instead of putting it in DT, ACPI, ...?

You only have to put it in one place.

Rich.

-- 
Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones
Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com
virt-builder quickly builds VMs from scratch
http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-01 11:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-31 18:23 SBI extension proposal Atish Patra
2018-10-31 18:23 ` Atish Patra
     [not found] ` <CAK-hmcQeiGa3BwnzEVB_dyhFiC7rXHFN-wTsJomg-jAo7a+v3Q@mail.gmail.com>
2018-10-31 19:11   ` Olof Johansson
2018-10-31 19:11     ` Olof Johansson
2018-10-31 20:37     ` Atish Patra
2018-10-31 20:37       ` Atish Patra
2018-11-02  6:31       ` Chang, Abner (HPS SW/FW Technologist)
2018-11-02  6:31         ` Chang, Abner (HPS SW/FW Technologist)
2018-11-02 22:31         ` Atish Patra
2018-11-02 22:31           ` Atish Patra
2018-11-04 14:36           ` Chang, Abner (HPS SW/FW Technologist)
2018-11-04 14:36             ` Chang, Abner (HPS SW/FW Technologist)
     [not found] ` <CA+h06zgcyWz7WMbzQxjyc9V5S3CokqSoO1mGOaynJE3uJE5QSg@mail.gmail.com>
2018-11-01  9:35   ` Anup Patel
2018-11-01  9:35     ` Anup Patel
2018-11-01  9:46     ` Richard W.M. Jones
2018-11-01  9:46       ` Richard W.M. Jones
2018-11-01 11:03       ` Philipp Hug
2018-11-01 11:03         ` Philipp Hug
2018-11-01 11:25         ` Richard W.M. Jones [this message]
2018-11-01 11:25           ` Richard W.M. Jones
2018-11-01 15:09           ` Atish Patra
2018-11-01 15:09             ` Atish Patra
2018-11-02  3:17             ` Olof Johansson
2018-11-02  3:17               ` Olof Johansson
2018-11-01 16:42       ` Karsten Merker
2018-11-02  2:49         ` Palmer Dabbelt
2018-11-02  2:49           ` Palmer Dabbelt
2018-11-02  3:27           ` Anup Patel
2018-11-02  3:27             ` Anup Patel
2018-11-02  4:29             ` Chang, Abner (HPS SW/FW Technologist)
2018-11-02  4:29               ` Chang, Abner (HPS SW/FW Technologist)
2018-11-02 15:24 ` Nick Kossifidis
2018-11-02 15:24   ` Nick Kossifidis
2018-11-02 23:12   ` Atish Patra
2018-11-02 23:12     ` Atish Patra
2018-11-02 23:45     ` Nick Kossifidis
2018-11-02 23:45       ` Nick Kossifidis
2018-11-03  0:00       ` Atish Patra
2018-11-03  0:00         ` Atish Patra
2018-11-05 13:50         ` Nick Kossifidis
2018-11-05 13:50           ` Nick Kossifidis
2018-11-05 18:51           ` Atish Patra
2018-11-05 18:51             ` Atish Patra
2018-11-06  1:55             ` Zong Li
2018-11-06  1:55               ` Zong Li
2018-11-09 21:47               ` Atish Patra
2018-11-09 21:47                 ` Atish Patra

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