Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Nov 2017 21:08:32 +0100 | From | Jonathan Neuschäfer <> | Subject | Re: [patches] Re: [PATCH] dt-bindings: Add a RISC-V SBI firmware node |
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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.
Thanks, Jonathan Neuschäfer [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |