[PATCH 1/3] CXL: Add image control to sysfs
Michael Ellerman
michael at ellerman.id.au
Thu Jan 15 16:07:17 AEDT 2015
On Thu, 2015-01-15 at 15:41 +1100, Ian Munsie wrote:
> Excerpts from Ryan Grimm's message of 2015-01-15 13:56:39 +1100:
> > Add reset_loads_image and reset_image_select to sysfs.
> >
> > reset_image_select identifies which image will be loaded to the card on the
> > next PERST. Valid entries are: "user" and "factory".
> >
> > reset_loads_image defines functionality on a PERST. Value of 0 means PERST
> > will not cause image load. A power cycle is required to load the image. Value
> > of 1 means PERST will cause image load.
> >
> > sysfs updates the cxl struct in the driver then calls cxl_update_image_control
> > to write the vals in the VSEC.
>
> Let's combine both of these into a single sysfs file, with "none",
> "user" and "factory" options and have the show & read functions handle
> mapping those three options to the two bits in the register.
>
> Of the two names I'd probably go with reset_image_select.
Three words, all can be verbs, two can be nouns, it's not too clear.
Maybe "load_image_on_perst" ?
cheers
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