Re: [PATCH] Documentation: tpm: Adds the TPM device tree node documentation
From: Jason Gunthorpe <hidden>
Date: 2016-09-02 17:06:13
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linux-i2c
From: Jason Gunthorpe <hidden>
Date: 2016-09-02 17:06:13
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linux-i2c
On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 09:51:21AM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
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+- linux,sml-base : base address of the Event Log. It is a physical address. + sml stands for shared memory log.How is it a physical address on an i2c device? Why 2 cells (which needs to be documented also)?
To be clear, as I understand it, this mechanism is a hand off from the boot firmware to Linux. The boot firmware talks i2c to the device, does some stuff, writes it to memory and then linux reads that stuff. I agree it seems crazy to include a random physical address like that. The linux,sml-* names appear to have been used by IBM for a long time on their enterprise PPC platforms (see drivers/char/tpm/tpm_of.c), so I've expected we have to keep them? I asked Nayna to document this stuff IBM is doing so the rest of us in TPM land can have a hope of maintaining it... Jason ------------------------------------------------------------------------------