for GSOC students, i think this ideas would be enough for new guys. we can not assume the potential guy is much familiar with coreboot.
Best wishes QingPei Wang Phone: 86+18930528086 On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 4:53 AM, Marc Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Patrick Georgi <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Am 20.03.2013 21:09, schrieb Marc Jones: > >> The ACPI APIE and ERST methods allow the kernel to mount pstore to > >> store information in NVRAM (coreboot cbfs). This could be used to > >> store errors that are otherwise difficult to track, like suspend and > >> resume issues. The implementation would need to be able to find an > >> area free in cbfs for storing the data. > > Reserve it beforehand? That's what I intend to do for Tiano variables > > Yes, I think we would need a cbfs file for allocating the region > before hand and then that would be used by ERST and pstore. I don' t > know how the region internals work. Also, there are problaly some > pstore limitation and knowing the flash device before hand to set > alignment (erase blocks) etc. > > Marc > > -- > http://se-eng.com > > -- > coreboot mailing list: [email protected] > http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot >
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