This patch redesigns the interface between the generic memconsole driver
and its implementations to become more flexible than a flat memory
buffer with unchanging bounds. This allows memconsoles like coreboot's
to include lines that were added by runtime firmware after the driver
was initialized. Since the console log size is thus no longer static,
this means that the /sys/firmware/log file has to become unseekable.
Signed-off-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This patch splits memconsole.c in 2 parts. One containing the
architecture-independent part and the other one containing the EBDA
specific part. This prepares the integration of coreboot support for the
memconsole.
The memconsole driver is now named as memconsole-x86-legacy.
Signed-off-by: Thierry Escande <thierry.escande@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Julius Werner