Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] Enabling patches of 2 early consoles for Intel MID platforms

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:40:45AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > This serie mainly enables 2 early consoles named mrst and hsu for
> > Intel MID platforms. please help to review, thanks,
> > 
> > - Feng
> > 
> > Changelog:
> > 	v3:
> > 	     * Fix a warning for mrst.h
> > 	     * Add 2 helper funcs for fixed address mapping as
> > 	       suggested by Ingo
> > 	     * Rename the mrst_earlyprintk.c to early_printk_mrst.c
> > 	     * Clean the code and fix typoes upon Ingo's comments
> > 	v2:
> > 	     * Code clean as suggested by Ingo 
> 
> Thanks, this series looks really good!
> 
> > Feng Tang (4):
> >   x86, mrst: make mrst_identify_cpu() inlne inside mrst.h
> >   x86: add two helper macros for fixed address mapping
> >   x86, earlyprintk: add earlyprintk for Intel Moorestown platform
> >   x86, earlyprintk: add hsu early console for Intel Medfield platform
> > 
> >  arch/x86/Kconfig.debug              |    4 +
> >  arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h       |   15 ++
> >  arch/x86/include/asm/mrst.h         |   10 +-
> >  arch/x86/kernel/Makefile            |    1 +
> >  arch/x86/kernel/early_printk.c      |   13 ++
> >  arch/x86/kernel/early_printk_mrst.c |  319 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  6 files changed, 361 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >  mode change 100644 => 100755 arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h
> >  create mode 100644 arch/x86/kernel/early_printk_mrst.c
> 
> Wrt. integration: i'd prefer to carry these four patches in the 
> tip:x86/early-printk tree (to be merged into v2.6.37), because
> there's some interaction with other x86 bits.

No objection from me.

> AFAICS the two serial patches:
> 
>  [PATCH 1/2] serial: mrst_max3110: some code cleanup
>  [PATCH 2/2] mrst_max3110: Make the IRQ option runtime
> 
> Are structurally independent from the earlyprintk patches and could be 
> carried separately in the serial tree.
> 
> Alan, Greg, what's your preference?

I can carry these in the tty tree fine.  They don't depend on the x86
patches, right?

thanks,

greg k-h