On 28.05.19 17:41, Sven Schnelle wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 01:28:12PM +0200, Rolf Eike Beer wrote: >>> FWIW, i hacked up a small driver to read the firmware, i'm attaching it >>> to this >>> Mail. Would be nice if some people could try reading the firmware from >>> their PA-RISC >>> system so we can collect and archive them. Note that it HPMC's in 32 Bit >>> Mode, >>> but it worked in 64 Bit mode on my C3750/J5000. >> >> Nice! >> [..] >> Any particular reason you are not simply using BIN_ATTR_RO? > > The reason is just my missing experience with Kernel APIs. If anyone says such > a driver is helpful in the upstream kernel, we could clean it up. But for now > i just wanted to get the contents of the flash, no matter how nice the code is > :-) I think it's helpful, and I'm happy to include it if someone cleans it up :-) I suggest to let it build by default (but as module). Helge
