linux-kernel - Re: [sodaville] [PATCH v2 01/15] x86/e820: remove conditional early mapping in parse_e820

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Message-ID: <20110203123946.701f74a2@queued.net>
Date:	Thu, 3 Feb 2011 12:39:46 -0800
From:	Andres Salomon <dilinger@...ued.net>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	Daniel Drake <dsd@...top.org>,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
	x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	sodaville@...utronix.de
Subject: Re: [sodaville] [PATCH v2 01/15] x86/e820: remove conditional early
 mapping in parse_e820_ext

On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 12:16:24 -0800
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com> wrote:

> On 02/03/2011 12:09 PM, Andres Salomon wrote:
> > 
> > Daniel has a patch set that includes the following:
> > 
> > 0010-OLPC-add-XO-1-rtc-driver.patch
> > 
> > +++ b/arch/x86/platform/olpc/olpc.c
> > @@ -311,6 +311,8 @@ static int __init add_xo1_platform_devices(void)
> >  {
> >         struct platform_device *pdev;
> > 
> > +       olpc_xo1_rtc_init();
> > +
> >         pdev = platform_device_register_simple("xo1-rfkill", -1,
> > NULL, 0);
> > 
> > 
> > This registers a specific rtc device for XO-1 machines (using the
> > CS5536 RTC).  XO-1.5 uses ACPI and a Via-based board, so the RTC
> > device should be handled there automatically.  The corner case is
> > for machines where the OLPC DT is enabled, but OLPC_XO1_RTC is not
> > enabled.  We still need to figure out what to do in that case, but
> > I think it's more appropriate to focus on getting the PM and
> > XO1_RTC stuff upstream first.  As of right now, it's the *only*
> > case.  We'll change that, by getting OLPC_XO1_RTC upstream.
> 
> OK, so how about "you're -----d anyway, so please don't block other
> development because you haven't gotten your own driver upstream?"
> 
> 	-hpa

Sorry if I hadn't made that clear, but that's what I was saying.  Go
ahead with the x86 DT stuff, we'll deal with OLPC breakage later.
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