From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754327AbeAJTaN (ORCPT + 1 other); Wed, 10 Jan 2018 14:30:13 -0500 Received: from mga04.intel.com ([192.55.52.120]:32442 "EHLO mga04.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753633AbeAJTaI (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Jan 2018 14:30:08 -0500 X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.46,341,1511856000"; d="scan'208";a="22993976" Subject: Re: [PATCH linux dev-4.10 0/6] Add support PECI and PECI hwmon drivers To: Greg KH Cc: joel@jms.id.au, andrew@aj.id.au, arnd@arndb.de, jdelvare@suse.com, linux@roeck-us.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, openbmc@lists.ozlabs.org, Jae Hyun Yoo References: <20180109223126.13093-1-jae.hyun.yoo@linux.intel.com> <20180110101755.GA5822@kroah.com> <006c4a95-9299-bd17-6dec-52578e8461ae@linux.intel.com> <20180110191703.GA20248@kroah.com> From: Jae Hyun Yoo Message-ID: <8997e43c-683e-418d-4e2b-1fe3fefe254e@linux.intel.com> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 11:30:05 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20180110191703.GA20248@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-Path: On 1/10/2018 11:17 AM, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 11:14:34AM -0800, Jae Hyun Yoo wrote: >> On 1/10/2018 2:17 AM, Greg KH wrote: >>> On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 02:31:20PM -0800, Jae Hyun Yoo wrote: >>>> From: Jae Hyun Yoo >>>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> This patch set provides support for PECI of AST2400/2500 which can give us PECI >>>> functionalities such as temperature monitoring, platform manageability, >>>> processor diagnostics and failure analysis. Also provides generic peci.h and >>>> peci_ioctl.h headers to provide compatibility to peci drivers that can be >>>> implemented later e.g. Nuvoton's BMC SoC family. >>> >>> What is the "dev-4.10" in the subject for? 4.10 is really old and >>> obsolete :( >>> >>> thanks, >>> >>> greg k-h >>> >> >> I made this patch set on top of the v4.10 which OpenBmc project is currently >> using. I'll rebase this patch set onto the current kernel.org mainline. > > What is "OpenBmc", and why are they using an obsolete and insecure > kernel for their project? That seems like a very foolish thing to do... > > thanks, > > greg k-h > OpenBmc is an open source project to create a highly extensible framework for BMC (Board Management Controller) software for data-center computer systems: https://github.com/openbmc Its current mainline is v4.10 but it is being kept upgrading so it will be upgraded to the latest stable or long-term version soon. Thanks, Jae