From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jean Delvare Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] misc: Add Tunnel creek In-Vehicle I2C loader driver Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 14:21:30 +0200 Message-ID: <20101015142130.1cf14629@endymion.delvare> References: <1283956897.4593.12.camel@debian> <4CA2FB10.2020605@pelagicore.com> <20101015104902.1047c978@endymion.delvare> <20101015121042.GA27369@sirena.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20101015121042.GA27369-GFdadSzt00ze9xe1eoZjHA@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-i2c-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Mark Brown Cc: Richard Rojfors , linux-i2c-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, ben-linux-elnMNo+KYs3YtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org Hi Mark On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:10:43 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 10:49:02AM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > > > As a matter of fact, I have been discussing this with Intel people > > recently: > > http://marc.info/?t=128683908500001&r=1&w=2 > > It is pretty clear that Intel have added board config support to x86 > > already, even though that change may not be public yet. So I can only > > encourage you to discuss this with Jacob Pan, Feng Tang and Alan Cox. > > That stuff is very specific to the Moorestown CPUs and a new BIOS type > they have, the board_info part was posted on lkml about two weeks ago if > you search through the archives. My point still holds, regardless of what exactly Intel has in the works: if board config is now needed on some x86 systems, then support for it should be added in the same way other architectures did before. I can't see any reason why x86 would be different. -- Jean Delvare