Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Nov 2017 16:36:22 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: [patches] Re: [PATCH] dt-bindings: Add a RISC-V SBI firmware node | From | Palmer Dabbelt <> |
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On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 12:08:32 PST (-0800), j.neuschaefer@gmx.net wrote: > On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 09:37:02AM -0800, Palmer Dabbelt wrote: > [...] >> This isn't really a big deal to me, as I'm only interested in RISC-V >> systems, but there's been some pushback on the concept of an SBI so it >> seemed like a simple way to allow people to build non-SBI (and there for not >> really RISC-V) systems. > > For those reading along: I suggested the /firmware/sbi node to Palmer, > because I'm interested in such "not really RISC-V" systems, (because it > makes the firmware's job easier to not implement the SBI — speaking with > my coreboot hat, here.) > >> One option that wouldn't require a device tree node >> would be to have Linux boot in machine mode [...] and then provide its >> own SBI implementation. > > I think this can work.
OK, sounds good!
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