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From: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am•sony.com>
To: Ranulf Doswell <ralf@ranulf•net>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: [patch 2/6] PS3: Remove unused os-area params
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 15:50:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <470AB435.6040403@am.sony.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18a15270710081538j85cc680w3815baa80f050ad4@mail.gmail.com>

Ranulf Doswell wrote:
> On 08/10/2007, *Geoff Levand* <geoffrey.levand@am•sony.com
> <mailto:geoffrey.levand@am•sony.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Ranulf Doswell wrote:
>     >
>     > As these values are correctly populated by the hypervisor from the
>     > preferences on the standard PS3 OS, it is incredibly useful to
>     have this
>     > information available.
> 
>     No, it is not used, and I never used it.
> 
> 
> Maybe I've mistaken how these are used. Having just looked at the source
> again, I see that the saved_params field isn't exported.
> 
> Am I correct in assuming that this information will still be available
> in /dev/ps3flash starting at offset 0x200? That's actually where I'm
> expecting to find the information anyway. I believed your patch was
> changing that behaviour, although I probably didn't study it enough.

Yes, and you can use libps3-utils to get it:

  http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/geoff/ps3-utils.git

-Geoff

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-08 22:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-06 21:35 [patch 0/6] PS3 os area patches for 2.6.24 geoffrey.levand
2007-10-06 21:35 ` [patch 1/6] PS3: Cleanup of os-area.c geoffrey.levand
2007-10-06 21:35 ` [patch 2/6] PS3: Remove unused os-area params geoffrey.levand
2007-10-08 14:00   ` Ranulf Doswell
2007-10-08 17:53     ` Geoff Levand
2007-10-08 22:38       ` Ranulf Doswell
2007-10-08 22:50         ` Geoff Levand [this message]
2007-10-06 21:35 ` [patch 3/6] PS3: os-area workqueue processing geoffrey.levand
2007-10-06 21:35 ` [patch 4/6] PS3: Add os-area rtc_diff set/get routines geoffrey.levand
2007-10-06 21:35 ` [patch 5/6] PS3: Save os-area params to device tree geoffrey.levand
2007-10-06 21:35 ` [patch 6/6] PS3: Add os-area database routines geoffrey.levand
2007-10-08  8:27   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-10-09  1:08     ` Geoff Levand
2007-10-08 12:16   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-10-09  1:12     ` Geoff Levand
2007-10-08 13:48   ` Ranulf Doswell
2007-10-08 17:52     ` Geoff Levand
2007-10-08 22:59       ` Ranulf Doswell
2007-10-08 23:36         ` Geoff Levand
2007-10-09  9:35         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-10-09 12:23           ` Ranulf Doswell
2007-10-09  1:07   ` [patch v2] " Geoff Levand
2007-10-09 11:38     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-10-09 17:15     ` Linas Vepstas

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