Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] nvmem: core: introduce cells parser

[Srinivas Kandagatla]

On 21/09/2021 06:50, John Thomson wrote:
> > > Currently I can test only on at24 devices. From the:
> > >
> > > https://opencomputeproject.github.io/onie/design-spec/hw_requirements.html
> > >
> > > "
> > > Each ONIE system must include non-volatile storage which contains vital
> > > product data assigned by the manufacturer. The non-volatile storage
> > > could take the form of an EEPROM, a NOR-flash sector, a NAND-flash
> > > sector or any other non-volatile storage medium.
> > > "
> > >
> > > I am not aware about other nvmem devices which are used for existing
> > > ONIE supported boards.
> > >
> > > > As long as you represent this parsing function as some library function,
> > > > I do not see any issue.
> > > > If any exported symbol is available for this then any nvmem provider
> > > > could use it.
> > > >
> > > > --srini
> Hi Srinivas,
>
> Can I note here that I would like to parse
> TLV data from an SPI-NOR device to NVMEM cells.
> The same general use case (getting mac-address from OEM data).
>
> Was planning to base my work on this series, as well as
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210908100257.17833-1-qiangqing.zhang@xxxxxxx/

This series is for post-processing nvmem cell data before it gets to 
consumers.
Are you referring to parsing nvmem cell information (offset, name) in 
your usecase like: 
https://opencomputeproject.github.io/onie/design-spec/hw_requirements.html

Or
Are you referring to post-processing nvmem cell data ?


--srini
> (thanks for pointing that out Srinivas)
>
> Cheers,
> -- John Thomson