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SubjectRe: [PATCH V6 1/3] dt-bindings: sram: qcom,imem: Add Boot Stat region within IMEM
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On 5/16/2023 12:17 PM, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> On Tue, 16 May 2023 at 11:16, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, May 9, 2023, at 13:35, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
>>> On Tue, 9 May 2023 at 13:53, Souradeep Chowdhury
>>> <quic_schowdhu@quicinc.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> All Qualcomm bootloaders log useful timestamp information related
>>>> to bootloader stats in the IMEM region. Add the child node within
>>>> IMEM for the boot stat region containing register address and
>>>> compatible string.
>>>
>>> I might have a minor vote here. Is there any reason why you have to
>>> instantiate the device from DT?
>>> It looks like a software interface. Ideally software should not be
>>> described in DT (e.g. this can be instantiated from imem
>>> driver-to-be).
>>
>> There is nothing wrong with describing firmware in DT, if that
>> firmware is part of the platform, we do that for a lot of
>> other bits of firmware.
>>
>> However, in this specific case, many things are wrong with the
>> implementation, and neither the DT binding nor the driver
>> makes sense to me in its current state.
>>
>>>> + "^stats@[0-9a-f]+$":
>>>> + type: object
>>>> + description:
>>>> + Imem region dedicated for storing timestamps related
>>>> + information regarding bootstats.
>>>> +
>>>> + additionalProperties: false
>>>> +
>>>> + properties:
>>>> + compatible:
>>>> + items:
>>>> + - enum:
>>>> + - qcom,sm8450-bootstats
>>>> + - const: qcom,imem-bootstats
>>>> +
>>>> + reg:
>>>> + maxItems: 1
>>
>> If I understand this right, this "qcom,imem-bootstats"
>> device serves as an indirection to store additional
>> properties of the system in a memory area, but the description
>> of that area is more complex than its contents, which
>> makes no sense to me.
>>
>> Just create a binding for a firmware node in the devicetree
>> itself, and put the values in properties of that. The first
>> stage firmware can still use the same interface, but the
>> actual loader that assembles the DT can get it out of that
>> and store it in the properties. With that done, there is also
>> no need for a kernel driver, as userspace can just get the
>> values from /sys/firmware/devicetree/ directly.
>
> This sounds good, except the always-present issue of the devices which
> have already been released. Usually we can not expect a bootloader
> update for these devices.

Valid point. I don't expect current SOCs supported at upstream to update
with the newer bootloader having this feature done through bootloader.

---Trilok Soni

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