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From: "Jonathan Neuschäfer" <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
To: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
Cc: robh@kernel.org, j.neuschaefer@gmx.net, mark.rutland@arm.com,
	devicetree@vger.kernel.org, patches@groups.riscv.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patches] Re: [PATCH] dt-bindings: Add a RISC-V SBI firmware node
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 21:08:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171121200832.d55khzcufo2owcff@latitude> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mhng-dadf76d9-0823-4fc8-9177-1772629573b6@palmer-si-x1c4>

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On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 09:37:02AM -0800, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
[...]
> This isn't really a big deal to me, as I'm only interested in RISC-V
> systems, but there's been some pushback on the concept of an SBI so it
> seemed like a simple way to allow people to build non-SBI (and there for not
> really RISC-V) systems.

For those reading along: I suggested the /firmware/sbi node to Palmer,
because I'm interested in such "not really RISC-V" systems, (because it
makes the firmware's job easier to not implement the SBI — speaking with
my coreboot hat, here.)

> One option that wouldn't require a device tree node
> would be to have Linux boot in machine mode [...] and then provide its
> own SBI implementation.

I think this can work.


Thanks,
Jonathan Neuschäfer

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-21 20:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-20 19:50 [PATCH] dt-bindings: Add a RISC-V SBI firmware node Palmer Dabbelt
2017-11-20 20:28 ` Jonathan Neuschäfer
2017-11-20 21:28   ` [patches] " Palmer Dabbelt
2017-11-21  1:08     ` Jonathan Neuschäfer
2017-11-21 17:41       ` Palmer Dabbelt
2017-11-21 10:43     ` Mark Rutland
2017-11-20 21:45 ` Rob Herring
2017-11-21 17:37   ` [patches] " Palmer Dabbelt
2017-11-21 20:08     ` Jonathan Neuschäfer [this message]
2017-11-22  0:36       ` Palmer Dabbelt

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