From: "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" <info@metux.net>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" <info@metux.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rafael@kernel.org,
linus.walleij@linaro.org, bgolaszewski@baylibre.com,
robh+dt@kernel.org, frowand.list@gmail.com,
pantelis.antoniou@konsulko.com, linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org,
devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 09/12] drivers: base: reintroduce find_bus()
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2021 16:30:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9db34ee4-30dc-9e69-6e82-00cbf4615ed5@metux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YDYHhYRDBDKGSZ1r@kroah.com>
On 24.02.21 09:00, Greg KH wrote:
> Have the firmware code do it itself, do nto try to "reach across" like
> this.
By "firmware code" you mean Linux acpi core or the board's bios ?
a) Fixing BIOS would be the cleanest solution, but we cant expect all
users to do field upgrades. Many of the devices (eg. the customer,
I've originally wrote the apu board driver for, deployed them in
really remote locations, sometimes even just reachable by ship,
heli or horse, litterally)
b) Explicit blacklisting somewhere in apci enumeration code could work,
but I really hate the idea of such board and bios version specific
quirks in a place, completely unrelated to the actual board driver.
Actually, I'm also hoping to find a proper way for having those things
in one file per board, in the future. (probably not applicable for
early stuff, or _OSI(Linux), etc)
> And what problem are you really trying to solve here by doing this?
The problem is that *some* bios versions (that came much later, after
pcengines-apuv2 driver went into production) added a few things that
the driver is already doing - different versions doing it differently
(eg. even enumerating gpio connected leds with completely different
names, etc), and still some gpio connected devices missing. Some
versions (just forgot, which one it's been exactly) even enumerate
*some* gpios (and LEDs behind them) as a different device, whose Linux
driver just happens to work. Meanwhile I can't find any reference of
that in the coreboot source, anymore.
As you can see: bios is anything but reliable on that platform.
What I'm trying to achieve: the kernel should behave exactly the
same, no matter what board revision, bios version, kernel version,
etc. (there should be especially no need to have special per-board
quirks in userland, depending on board rev, bios version, kernel
version).
If you've got a better solution, I'll be glad to hear it.
--mtx
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-24 15:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-08 22:21 RFC: oftree based setup of composite board devices Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2021-02-08 22:21 ` [RFC PATCH 01/12] of: base: improve error message in of_phandle_iterator_next() Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2021-02-08 22:21 ` [RFC PATCH 02/12] of: base: introduce of_find_node_by_phandle_from() Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2021-02-08 22:21 ` [RFC PATCH 03/12] of: base: record root node in interator and use it for phandle lookup Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2021-02-08 22:21 ` [RFC PATCH 04/12] of: base: introduce of_match_string() Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2021-02-08 23:52 ` Rob Herring
2021-02-08 22:21 ` [RFC PATCH 05/12] of: kobj: __of_attach_node_sysfs(): add optional basename parameter Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2021-02-08 22:21 ` [RFC PATCH 06/12] of: kobj: introduce of_attach_tree_sysfs() Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2021-02-08 22:21 ` [RFC PATCH 07/12] gpio: amd-fch: add oftree probing support Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2021-02-11 9:57 ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2021-03-01 14:51 ` Linus Walleij
2021-03-11 10:17 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2021-03-11 10:42 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-03-18 8:00 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2021-03-25 9:09 ` Linus Walleij
2021-02-08 22:21 ` [RFC PATCH 08/12] drivers: base: introduce bus_remove_device_by_name() Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2021-02-08 22:22 ` [RFC PATCH 09/12] drivers: base: reintroduce find_bus() Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2021-02-13 10:20 ` Greg KH
2021-02-23 20:13 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2021-02-24 8:00 ` Greg KH
2021-02-24 15:30 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult [this message]
2021-02-24 16:28 ` Greg KH
2021-02-08 22:22 ` [RFC PATCH 10/12] export bus_get() / bus_put() Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2021-02-08 22:22 ` [RFC PATCH 11/12] platform/x86: skeleton for oftree based board device initialization Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2021-02-10 10:32 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-02-12 9:58 ` Linus Walleij
2021-02-12 11:54 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2021-02-15 1:18 ` Frank Rowand
2021-02-23 20:41 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2021-03-02 13:33 ` Linus Walleij
2021-02-08 22:22 ` [RFC PATCH 12/12] platform/x86/of: add support for PC Engines APU v2/3/4 boards Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2021-02-09 0:06 ` Rob Herring
2021-02-11 13:15 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2021-03-01 14:55 ` Linus Walleij
2021-02-08 23:48 ` RFC: oftree based setup of composite board devices Rob Herring
2021-02-10 22:13 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2021-02-15 1:12 ` Frank Rowand
2021-02-15 15:35 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-02-24 13:00 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2021-02-24 23:14 ` Frank Rowand
2021-03-05 18:29 ` Rob Herring
2021-02-10 10:30 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-02-11 11:08 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2021-02-11 11:41 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-02-11 17:01 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
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