Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 3 authors, 2016-09-02

Re: [PATCH] Documentation: tpm: Adds the TPM device tree node documentation

From: Jason Gunthorpe <hidden>
Date: 2016-09-02 17:06:13
Also in: 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

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