linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/platform: sta2x11: add platform code

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Date:	Mon, 28 May 2012 16:38:28 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Alessandro Rubini <rubini@...dd.com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Giancarlo Asnaghi <giancarlo.asnaghi@...com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/platform: sta2x11: add platform code

On 05/27/2012 01:50 PM, Alessandro Rubini wrote:
> This adds platform code for the STA2X11 (aka ConneXt) I/O Hub,
> including support for the Intel NorthVille evaluation board and the
> ST-Eval PCIe carrier.
> 
> The boards differ for the amount of peripherals actually wired out,
> GPIO configuration and some accessory pins. At this point, platform
> data for peripherals other tha GPIO is not instantiated because the
> drivers are not yet upstream.
> 
> The array of supported boards is built using a local ELF section to
> avoid ifdef; the section is folded in the .data section by a local
> linker script.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alessandro Rubini <rubini@...dd.com>
> Acked-by: Giancarlo Asnaghi <giancarlo.asnaghi@...com>
> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>

Nacked-in-the-extreme-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>

There is absolutely NO WAY this kind of ARM-like sh*t is going into the
x86 kernel.

	-hpa


-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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