From: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
To: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>,
linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
Peter Tyser <ptyser@xes-inc.com>,
key.seong.lim@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] spi-nor: Add support for Intel SPI serial flash controller
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 11:47:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160830104743.GD10121@dell> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160830092803.GH1709@lahna.fi.intel.com>
On Tue, 30 Aug 2016, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 10:13:30AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> > On Mon, 29 Aug 2016, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 10:10:41AM +0300, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > This is third version of the series. Previous versions can be found:
> > > >
> > > > v2: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2016-June/068277.html
> > > > v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/6/14/269
> > > >
> > > > This series adds support for the Intel SPI serial flash controller found on
> > > > many recent Intel CPUs including Baytrail and Braswell. This driver makes
> > > > it possible to access the BIOS and other platform data which is stored on
> > > > the SPI serial flash. It is also possible to upgrade the BIOS using this
> > > > driver if it has not been protected by special hardware bits.
> > > >
> > > > The patch [1/3] includes documentation how to upgrade BIOS on MinnowBoard
> > > > MAX.
> > > >
> > > > Since poking the SPI serial flash can brick the machine, this driver can
> > > > only be enabled when CONFIG_EXPERT=y and even then it will remain read-only
> > > > unless instructed othwerwise by module parameter.
> > > >
> > > > Lee can you ACK/NACK the MFD parts so that we can merge the whole series
> > > > through the MTD tree?
> >
> > Why does it need to go into the MTD tree? What are the *build*
> > dependencies?
>
> The first patch adds include/linux/platform_data/intel-spi.h which is
> needed by the second patch to fill in the platform data structure.
That's reasonable.
I'm happy for the set to be routed via MTD. I do require a tagged
immutable branch (with only these patches on) to pull from though.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-30 10:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-15 7:10 [PATCH v3 0/3] spi-nor: Add support for Intel SPI serial flash controller Mika Westerberg
2016-08-15 7:10 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] " Mika Westerberg
2016-08-15 7:10 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] mfd: lpc_ich: Add support for SPI serial flash host controller Mika Westerberg
2016-08-30 9:12 ` Lee Jones
2016-08-15 7:10 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] mfd: lpc_ich: Add support for Intel Apollo Lake SoC Mika Westerberg
2016-08-30 9:08 ` Lee Jones
2016-09-29 13:19 ` Kraemer, Matthias (Ferchau; ADITG/SW1)
2016-09-29 13:29 ` Mika Westerberg
2016-09-29 16:56 ` Lee Jones
2016-08-29 7:11 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] spi-nor: Add support for Intel SPI serial flash controller Mika Westerberg
2016-08-30 9:13 ` Lee Jones
2016-08-30 9:28 ` Mika Westerberg
2016-08-30 10:47 ` Lee Jones [this message]
2016-09-12 8:35 ` Mika Westerberg
2016-10-05 9:57 ` Stefan Roese
2016-10-05 10:27 ` Mika Westerberg
2016-10-05 11:11 ` Stefan Roese
2016-10-05 11:18 ` Mika Westerberg
2016-10-05 11:31 ` Stefan Roese
2016-10-05 11:49 ` Mika Westerberg
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