From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>,
devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: OLPC: add OLPC device-tree support (v3)
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 07:41:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CC83A10.8090607@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101027101933.GD6797@angua.secretlab.ca>
On 10/27/2010 03:19 AM, Grant Likely wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 03:58:46PM -0700, Andres Salomon wrote:
>>
>> Make use of PROC_DEVICETREE to export the tree, and sparc's PROMTREE code to
>> call into OLPC's Open Firmware to build the tree.
>>
>> v3: rename olpc_prom to olpc_dt
>> - rework Kconfig entries
>> - drop devtree build hook from proc, instead adding a call to x86's
>> paging_init (similarly to how sparc64 does it)
>> - switch allocation from using slab to alloc_bootmem. this allows
>> the DT to be built earlier during boot (during setup_arch); the
>> downside is that there are some 1200 bootmem reservations that are
>> done during boot. Not ideal..
>> - add a helper olpc_ofw_is_installed function to test for the
>> existence and successful detection of OLPC's OFW.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
>
> Overall this patch looks fine, but it needs to be acked from the x86
> maintainers, and I'd like it to have a cycle through linux-next before
> it gets merged, so that means 2.6.38 because the 2.6.37 merge window
> has already been open for almost a week.
>
Right... which means that our attention is going to be elsewhere for a
bit -- probably until after KS/LPC. Sorry, just immediate
prioritization and nothing to do with the relative importance.
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-27 14:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-22 22:58 [PATCH] x86: OLPC: add OLPC device-tree support (v3) Andres Salomon
2010-10-23 0:22 ` [PATCH] x86: OLPC: speed up device tree creation during boot Andres Salomon
2010-10-27 10:39 ` Grant Likely
2010-10-27 17:50 ` Andres Salomon
2010-10-27 10:19 ` [PATCH] x86: OLPC: add OLPC device-tree support (v3) Grant Likely
2010-10-27 13:35 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-10-27 14:41 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2010-10-27 17:48 ` Andres Salomon
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