From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jae Hyun Yoo Subject: Re: [PATCH linux dev-4.10 0/6] Add support PECI and PECI hwmon drivers Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 11:30:05 -0800 Message-ID: <8997e43c-683e-418d-4e2b-1fe3fefe254e@linux.intel.com> References: <20180109223126.13093-1-jae.hyun.yoo@linux.intel.com> <20180110101755.GA5822@kroah.com> <006c4a95-9299-bd17-6dec-52578e8461ae@linux.intel.com> <20180110191703.GA20248@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20180110191703.GA20248@kroah.com> Content-Language: en-US Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Greg KH Cc: joel@jms.id.au, andrew@aj.id.au, arnd@arndb.de, jdelvare@suse.com, linux@roeck-us.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, openbmc@lists.ozlabs.org, Jae Hyun Yoo List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On 1/10/2018 11:17 AM, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 11:14:34AM -0800, Jae Hyun Yoo wrote: >> On 1/10/2018 2:17 AM, Greg KH wrote: >>> On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 02:31:20PM -0800, Jae Hyun Yoo wrote: >>>> From: Jae Hyun Yoo >>>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> This patch set provides support for PECI of AST2400/2500 which can give us PECI >>>> functionalities such as temperature monitoring, platform manageability, >>>> processor diagnostics and failure analysis. Also provides generic peci.h and >>>> peci_ioctl.h headers to provide compatibility to peci drivers that can be >>>> implemented later e.g. Nuvoton's BMC SoC family. >>> >>> What is the "dev-4.10" in the subject for? 4.10 is really old and >>> obsolete :( >>> >>> thanks, >>> >>> greg k-h >>> >> >> I made this patch set on top of the v4.10 which OpenBmc project is currently >> using. I'll rebase this patch set onto the current kernel.org mainline. > > What is "OpenBmc", and why are they using an obsolete and insecure > kernel for their project? That seems like a very foolish thing to do... > > thanks, > > greg k-h > OpenBmc is an open source project to create a highly extensible framework for BMC (Board Management Controller) software for data-center computer systems: https://github.com/openbmc Its current mainline is v4.10 but it is being kept upgrading so it will be upgraded to the latest stable or long-term version soon. Thanks, Jae