[SLOF] [PATCH qemu v3] RFC: ppc/spapr: Receive and store device tree blob from SLOF

Alexey Kardashevskiy aik at ozlabs.ru
Tue Jan 2 17:13:09 AEDT 2018


On 11/12/17 17:20, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> On 09/11/17 17:38, David Gibson wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 06:14:04PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>>> On 20/10/17 11:46, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>>>> On 19/10/17 17:24, David Gibson wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 04:55:03PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>>>>>> On 16/10/17 20:36, David Gibson wrote:
>>>>>>> On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 04:20:04PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> [snip]
>>>>>>> ||
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yeah.. this is all a bit complicated, I'm really thinking about a
>>>>>>> fdt_fsck() function for libfdt.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Oh. So what now? Do as below or wait for libdtc update?
>>>>>
>>>>> So I started hacking on this.  It's a bit fiddlier to get right than I
>>>>> anticipated.  How about you make a placeholder function to "test" the
>>>>> tree for now, with a comment that it will be updated once the libfdt
>>>>> extensions are there.
>>>>
>>>> What would the placeholder do? Nothing or my proposed "FDT_CHK" thingy?
>>>>
>>>> Are we in a hurry with this one at all, or I can wait till libfdt gets this
>>>> fsck()?
>>>
>>>
>>> Ping?
>>>
>>> This is not v2.11 material, is it?
>>
>> Not at this stage, no.
>>
>> I've started looking at writing the fdt_fsck() thing, but got
>> sidetracked by a bunch of related fixes to safety of handling
>> corrupted blobs in libfdt.
> 
> Please let me know when I can repost the "
> ppc/spapr: Receive and store device tree blob from SLOF" again. Thanks.


Still to early to repost?


-- 
Alexey

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