nvmem: Add driver to expose reserved memory as nvmem
authorNicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne@suse.de>
Fri, 29 Jan 2021 17:14:29 +0000 (17:14 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 4 Feb 2021 16:04:18 +0000 (17:04 +0100)
commit5a3fa75a4d9cb6bcfc9081ef224a4cdcd4b3eafe
treeb3509798015e8bfd5ba27046f99698638cfb4ec5
parentf90714e56cb6c5d1e57fb4385b107932f76ef94f
nvmem: Add driver to expose reserved memory as nvmem

Firmware/co-processors might use reserved memory areas in order to pass
data stemming from an nvmem device otherwise non accessible to Linux.
For example an EEPROM memory only physically accessible to firmware, or
data only accessible early at boot time.

In order to expose this data to other drivers and user-space, the driver
models the reserved memory area as an nvmem device.

Tested-by: Tim Gover <tim.gover@raspberrypi.com>
Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210129171430.11328-5-srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/nvmem/Kconfig
drivers/nvmem/Makefile
drivers/nvmem/rmem.c [new file with mode: 0644]
drivers/of/platform.c