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From: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com>
To: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>,
	Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>,
	Huacai Chen <chenhc@lemote.com>
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Xuefeng Li <lixuefeng@loongson.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] MIPS: Loongson64: Add /proc/boardinfo
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2020 16:01:48 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9f0e4f45-dc8b-8351-8a40-8a4b8a86940f@flygoat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1602241050-24051-4-git-send-email-yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>



在 2020/10/9 下午6:57, Tiezhu Yang 写道:
> Add /proc/boardinfo to get mainboard and BIOS info easily on the Loongson
> platform, this is useful to point out the current used mainboard type and
> BIOS version when there exists problems related with hardware or firmware.

Hi Tiezhu,

You're touching Kernel userspace API and I believe it should be 
documented. Also linux-api list
should be informed.

Also I'd like to know if it's really useful for mainline kernel.
For user who wants to check board information, dmidecode is already 
useful enough.

Thanks.

- Jiaxun

>
> E.g. with this patch:
>
> [loongson@linux ~]$ cat /proc/boardinfo
> Board Info
> Manufacturer            : LEMOTE
> Board Name              : LEMOTE-LS3A4000-7A1000-1w-V01-pc
> Family                  : LOONGSON3
>
> BIOS Info
> Vendor                  : Kunlun
> Version                 : Kunlun-A1901-V4.1.3-20200414093938
> ROM Size                : 4 KB
> Release Date            : 2020-04-14
>
> Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
> ---
>

  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-10  8:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-09 10:57 [PATCH 0/3] Avoid build error, clean up numa.c and add /proc/boardinfo Tiezhu Yang
2020-10-09 10:57 ` [PATCH 1/3] MIPS: Loongson64: Select SMP in Kconfig to avoid build error Tiezhu Yang
2020-10-09 10:57 ` [PATCH 2/3] MIPS: Loongson64: Clean up numa.c Tiezhu Yang
2020-10-10  8:06   ` Jiaxun Yang
2020-10-09 10:57 ` [PATCH 3/3] MIPS: Loongson64: Add /proc/boardinfo Tiezhu Yang
2020-10-10  8:01   ` Jiaxun Yang [this message]
2020-10-10 23:40     ` Tiezhu Yang
2020-10-16 13:11   ` Pavel Machek
2020-10-17  1:23     ` Tiezhu Yang

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