Re: [PATCH 1/2] OLPC: Add support for calling into Open Firmware

[Yinghai Lu]

On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 9:05 PM, Mitch Bradley <wmb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>  Yinghai Lu wrote:
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> > On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 8:09 PM, Mitch Bradley <wmb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > >
> > >  Yinghai Lu wrote:
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> > > > how about changing to ofw_32.c?
> > > >
> > > > YH
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> > >  Is your suggestion to change the filename from "ofw.c" to "ofw_32.c"?
> That
> > > seems like a good idea to me.
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> > Yes.
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> > BTW,  why olpc need OFW runtime service?
> > why not just put the info in in ram with some signiture, so
> > kernel/util just need to loot at the table if needed?
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>  In SPARC land, at least on SunOS and Solaris, it was very convenient for
> debugging to interrupt the OS with Stop-A and use OFW to inspect the system
> state.  That was especially handy for live crash analysis.  Dumps are useful
> as far as they go, but they often fail to capture detailed I/O device state.
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>  I was hoping to do that on x86 too.  So far we (OLPC) haven't implemented a
> sysrq hook to enter OFW, but I haven't given up hope yet.  It doesn't cost
> much to leave OFW around, but once you decide to eject it, you can't easily
> get it back.

geode is using SMI to simulate the pci conf space, wonder that could be problem.

later you have 64 runtime service for 64 platform like UEFI?

YH
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