From: Stewart Smith <stewart-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
To: David Gibson
<david-xT8FGy+AXnRB3Ne2BGzF6laj5H9X9Tb+@public.gmane.org>,
Florian Fainelli
<f.fainelli-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Cc: devicetree-spec-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
"devicetree@vger.kernel.org"
<devicetree-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org>,
Rob Herring <robh-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>,
glikely-s3s/WqlpOiPyB63q8FvJNQ@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Extending /memreserve/ to allow defining descriptions
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2017 10:28:28 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r32a6l43.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170306035856.GF12030-K0bRW+63XPQe6aEkudXLsA@public.gmane.org>
David Gibson <david-xT8FGy+AXnRB3Ne2BGzF6laj5H9X9Tb+@public.gmane.org> writes:
> What you could do is to add properties within the device tree further
> annotating the reservations, with the extra structure essentially just
> acting as an easy-to-parse summary of that. In fact I know that POWER
> systems firmware use 'reserved-ranges' and 'reserved-names' properties
> for this. I don't know if anyone else has adopted that though.
We've also been toying with the idea of creating a binding for "named
reserved memory range that should probably show up in debugfs"
I'd also be happy with a standard binding to do it.
--
Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-06 23:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-04 21:40 Extending /memreserve/ to allow defining descriptions Florian Fainelli
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2017-03-06 3:58 ` David Gibson
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2017-03-06 23:28 ` Stewart Smith [this message]
[not found] ` <87r32a6l43.fsf-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
2017-03-07 0:12 ` Florian Fainelli
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2017-03-07 1:04 ` Grant Likely
2017-03-07 2:21 ` David Gibson
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