From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756581AbcH2HLt (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Aug 2016 03:11:49 -0400 Received: from mga07.intel.com ([134.134.136.100]:4875 "EHLO mga07.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756124AbcH2HLs (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Aug 2016 03:11:48 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.28,595,1464678000"; d="scan'208";a="1042769962" Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 10:11:25 +0300 From: Mika Westerberg To: Brian Norris , Lee Jones Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, David Woodhouse , Lee Jones , Peter Tyser , 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 Message-ID: <20160829071125.GX1812@lahna.fi.intel.com> References: <1471245044-12767-1-git-send-email-mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1471245044-12767-1-git-send-email-mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> Organization: Intel Finland Oy - BIC 0357606-4 - Westendinkatu 7, 02160 Espoo User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.2 (2016-07-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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? Hi, Any comments on this series? It missed v4.8 already so it would be nice to get it merged for v4.9. Thanks.