Re: [v10, 2/2] Documentation/ABI: Add ABI information for QCOM socinfo driver

From: Imran Khan
Date: Wed May 03 2017 - 08:52:06 EST


On 5/2/2017 4:17 AM, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> On Mon 01 May 06:07 PDT 2017, Imran Khan wrote:
>
>> On 4/26/2017 4:38 AM, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
>>> On Tue 25 Apr 10:13 PDT 2017, Rob Herring wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 6:05 PM, Bjorn Andersson
>>>> <bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> On Mon 24 Apr 09:27 PDT 2017, Rob Herring wrote:
> [..]
>>>>>>>>>>> +What: /sys/devices/soc0/build_id
> [..]
>>>> Why does the kernel need to provide it?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Imran, can you elaborate on how this information is travels from the
>>> build system to the SMEM item?
>>>
>>
>> This information, along with other SMEM items for this SMEM-id is
>> written by the bootloader (SBL). Please let me know if this much
>> information suffices in this regard.
>
> But where does the SBL find this information? Per my previous argument
> it doesn't make sense to store this information compiled into one of the
> components. Is it the CDT perhaps?
>

Yes SBL is getting this information from CDT.

Thanks and Regards,
Imran
> Regards,
> Bjorn
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