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From: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com>, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 1/2] powerpc/powernv: new function to access OPAL msglog
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Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com> writes:

> Currently, the OPAL msglog/console buffer is exposed as a sysfs file, with
> the sysfs read handler responsible for retrieving the log from the OPAL
> buffer. We'd like to be able to use it in xmon as well.
>
> Refactor the OPAL msglog code to create a new function, opal_msglog_copy(),
> that copies to an arbitrary buffer. Separate the initialisation code into
> generic memcons init and sysfs file creation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com>

Acked-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

-- 
Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.