Re: [PATCH v3 01/18] dt-bindings: firmware: qcom,scm: Add minidump SRAM property
From: Krzysztof Kozlowski
Date: Sat May 30 2026 - 04:24:15 EST
On Sat, May 23, 2026 at 01:19:52AM +0530, Mukesh Ojha wrote:
> On most Qualcomm SoCs where minidump is supported, a word in always-on
> SRAM is shared between the kernel and boot firmware. Before DDR is
> initialised on the warm reset following a crash, firmware reads this
> word to decide if minidump is enabled and collect a minidump and where
> to deliver it (USB upload to a host, or save to local storage).
>
> Add a 'sram' property to the SCM binding to describe a region in
> always-on SRAM where the minidump download destination value could be
> written. Boot firmware reads it before DDR is initialised on a warm
> reset to decide where to store the minidump either to host PC or to
> on device storage.
You described how firmware is using it, but we do not run the firmware
here. From this entire description we don't need it in DTS, because this
is not a DTS for firmware.
Best regards,
Krzysztof