Question regarding "boot-hartid" DT node

Ard Biesheuvel ardb at kernel.org
Thu Jan 13 02:01:10 PST 2022


On Thu, 13 Jan 2022 at 10:59, Sunil V L <sunilvl at ventanamicro.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 10:50:11AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > > Hi Ard,
> > >    Here is the draft EFI_RISCV_BOOT_PROTOCOL specification.
> > >    https://github.com/riscv-non-isa/riscv-uefi/releases/download/0.3/EFI_RISCV_PROTOCOL-spec.pdf
> > >
> > >    If you are fine with this, we can freeze this spec. Thanks a lot for
> > >    your help on this.
> >
> > Please don't use the EFI_ prefix, it is reserved for protocols that
> > are defined in the UEFI or PI specifications.
>
> Oh OK. I didn't know that. TCG2 protocols also start with EFI prefix. Is
> that a mistake?
>

Yes.

> Would "RISCV_EFI_BOOT_PROTOCOL" be better?
>

Yes, or RISCV_BOOT_PROTOCOL. The EFI is kind of redundant since we are
dealing with a EFI protocol.

> Thanks
> Sunil
> >
> > Other than that, this looks fine to me.
> >
> > --
> > Ard.



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