Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] powerpc/pseries: Nvram-to-pstore

2013-04-24 Thread Aruna Balakrishnaiah
Hi Kees, On Thursday 25 April 2013 02:15 AM, Kees Cook wrote: On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:19 PM, Aruna Balakrishnaiah wrote: Currently the kernel provides the contents of p-series NVRAM only as a simple stream of bytes via /dev/nvram, which must be interpreted in user space by the nvram

Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] powerpc/pseries: Nvram-to-pstore

2013-04-24 Thread Kees Cook
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:19 PM, Aruna Balakrishnaiah wrote: > Currently the kernel provides the contents of p-series NVRAM only as a > simple stream of bytes via /dev/nvram, which must be interpreted in user > space by the nvram command in the powerpc-utils package. This patch set > exploits

[PATCH v2 0/8] powerpc/pseries: Nvram-to-pstore

2013-04-24 Thread Aruna Balakrishnaiah
Currently the kernel provides the contents of p-series NVRAM only as a simple stream of bytes via /dev/nvram, which must be interpreted in user space by the nvram command in the powerpc-utils package. This patch set exploits the pstore subsystem to expose each partition in NVRAM as a separate file

[PATCH v2 0/8] powerpc/pseries: Nvram-to-pstore

2013-04-24 Thread Aruna Balakrishnaiah
Currently the kernel provides the contents of p-series NVRAM only as a simple stream of bytes via /dev/nvram, which must be interpreted in user space by the nvram command in the powerpc-utils package. This patch set exploits the pstore subsystem to expose each partition in NVRAM as a separate file

Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] powerpc/pseries: Nvram-to-pstore

2013-04-24 Thread Kees Cook
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:19 PM, Aruna Balakrishnaiah ar...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote: Currently the kernel provides the contents of p-series NVRAM only as a simple stream of bytes via /dev/nvram, which must be interpreted in user space by the nvram command in the powerpc-utils package. This

Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] powerpc/pseries: Nvram-to-pstore

2013-04-24 Thread Aruna Balakrishnaiah
Hi Kees, On Thursday 25 April 2013 02:15 AM, Kees Cook wrote: On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:19 PM, Aruna Balakrishnaiah ar...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote: Currently the kernel provides the contents of p-series NVRAM only as a simple stream of bytes via /dev/nvram, which must be interpreted in user