linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] Enabling patches of 2 early consoles for Intel MID platforms

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Date:	Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:43:25 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Feng Tang <feng.tang@...el.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	alan@...ux.intel.com, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] Enabling patches of 2 early consoles for Intel
 MID platforms


* Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:40:45AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > * Feng Tang <feng.tang@...el.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > This serie mainly enables 2 early consoles named mrst and hsu for
> > > Intel MID platforms. please help to review, thanks,
> > > 
> > > - Feng
> > > 
> > > Changelog:
> > > 	v3:
> > > 	     * Fix a warning for mrst.h
> > > 	     * Add 2 helper funcs for fixed address mapping as
> > > 	       suggested by Ingo
> > > 	     * Rename the mrst_earlyprintk.c to early_printk_mrst.c
> > > 	     * Clean the code and fix typoes upon Ingo's comments
> > > 	v2:
> > > 	     * Code clean as suggested by Ingo 
> > 
> > Thanks, this series looks really good!
> > 
> > > Feng Tang (4):
> > >   x86, mrst: make mrst_identify_cpu() inlne inside mrst.h
> > >   x86: add two helper macros for fixed address mapping
> > >   x86, earlyprintk: add earlyprintk for Intel Moorestown platform
> > >   x86, earlyprintk: add hsu early console for Intel Medfield platform
> > > 
> > >  arch/x86/Kconfig.debug              |    4 +
> > >  arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h       |   15 ++
> > >  arch/x86/include/asm/mrst.h         |   10 +-
> > >  arch/x86/kernel/Makefile            |    1 +
> > >  arch/x86/kernel/early_printk.c      |   13 ++
> > >  arch/x86/kernel/early_printk_mrst.c |  319 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >  6 files changed, 361 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> > >  mode change 100644 => 100755 arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h
> > >  create mode 100644 arch/x86/kernel/early_printk_mrst.c
> > 
> > Wrt. integration: i'd prefer to carry these four patches in the 
> > tip:x86/early-printk tree (to be merged into v2.6.37), because
> > there's some interaction with other x86 bits.
> 
> No objection from me.
> 
> > AFAICS the two serial patches:
> > 
> >  [PATCH 1/2] serial: mrst_max3110: some code cleanup
> >  [PATCH 2/2] mrst_max3110: Make the IRQ option runtime
> > 
> > Are structurally independent from the earlyprintk patches and could be 
> > carried separately in the serial tree.
> > 
> > Alan, Greg, what's your preference?
> 
> I can carry these in the tty tree fine.  They don't depend on the x86 
> patches, right?

Yeah, as far as i've checked they dont. (havent actually tested that 
tho)

Thanks,

	Ingo
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