From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH] [v4] tty/powerpc: introduce the ePAPR embedded hypervisor byte channel driver Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:50:50 -0700 Message-ID: <20110825155050.GA10084@kroah.com> References: <1314286345-27056-1-git-send-email-timur@freescale.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from out3.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.27]:47294 "EHLO out3.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751904Ab1HYQA2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:00:28 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1314286345-27056-1-git-send-email-timur@freescale.com> Sender: linux-next-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Timur Tabi Cc: sfr@canb.auug.org.au, linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:32:25AM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote: > The ePAPR embedded hypervisor specification provides an API for "byte > channels", which are serial-like virtual devices for sending and receiving > streams of bytes. This driver provides Linux kernel support for byte > channels via three distinct interfaces: > > 1) An early-console (udbg) driver. This provides early console output > through a byte channel. The byte channel handle must be specified in a > Kconfig option. > > 2) A normal console driver. Output is sent to the byte channel designated > for stdout in the device tree. The console driver is for handling kernel > printk calls. > > 3) A tty driver, which is used to handle user-space input and output. The > byte channel used for the console is designated as the default tty. > > Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi No, this doesn't work, I need just a fix, as I took your previous patch already. greg k-h