Re: [PATCH] arm64: tegra: Enable ramoops on Tegra210 and newer

[Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>]

On 28/05/2025 19:35, Aaron Kling wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Friendly reminder to the Tegra maintainers about this question.
>>>>
>>> In lieu of a response from the Tegra subsystem maintainers, I can only
>>> hazard an assumption, Krzysztof. I presume the pstore carveout is
>>> bootloader controlled because various stages of the boot stack can
>>> dynamically allocate memory, and this became bootloader controlled to
>>> prevent any of those from overwriting pstore. I worry about hardcoding
>>> an address in the kernel dt, then finding out later that there's an
>>> in-use configuration that overwrites or corrupts that section of ram
>>> during boot. What are your thoughts on this? And is there any way for
>>> this patch to proceed?
>>
>> I haven't been able to find anything out about this yet. Generally it's
>> difficult to get the bootloaders updated for these devices. Tegra194 and
>> Tegra234 may be new enough to make an update eventually go into a
>> release, but for Tegra186 and older, I honestly wouldn't hold my
>> breath.
>>
>> Thierry
> 
> Krzysztof, based on this response, is there any way or form that the
> Tegra186 part of this could be submitted? I can drop the newer
> platforms from this patch if Thierry can get a response to his other
> reply about how the bootloader could conform.
> 
I don't NAK it. Eventually it is up to platform maintainer if they
accept known DTC warnings.

Best regards,
Krzysztof