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* [PATCH 0/9] OLPC: create a generic OLPC EC driver
@ 2012-07-19  1:21 Andres Salomon
  2012-07-19  1:25 ` [PATCH 1/9] Platform: OLPC: add a stub to drivers/platform/ for the " Andres Salomon
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  0 siblings, 18 replies; 21+ messages in thread
From: Andres Salomon @ 2012-07-19  1:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Morton
  Cc: devel, Daniel Drake, libertas-dev, Dan Williams, netdev,
	Jon Nettleton, x86, linux-wireless, linux-kernel,
	platform-driver-x86, Richard A. Smith, Paul Fox,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman, Anton Vorontsov, H. Peter Anvin,
	Thomas Gleixner, Chris Ball, David Woodhouse, Ingo Molnar,
	John W. Linville, Matthew Garrett

The OLPC EC (Embedded Controller) code that is currently upstream is
x86-only, originally written for the XO-1.  Since then, we've had the
XO-1.5 (also x86), and XO-1.75 (arm-based) enter mass production.  The
1.75 uses a vastly different EC protocol, and future hardware revisions
are likely to change it even further.

However, the drivers do share quite a bit of code, so it makes sense to
have a platform-agnostic driver that calls into platform-specific hooks
for each XO's EC driver.  This is the first stab and creating such a
beast (with further patches pending).  Aside from the lack of code
duplication, this is helpful for fixing bugs in one place (for example,
we fixed an EC suspend/resume bug in 1.75 that I've just seen happen on
1.5 without these patches.  With these patches, the problem goes away).

These patches are against Linus's current HEAD; let me know if they
don't apply somewhere, and I'll happily redo them against the -next
tree.  I'm assuming that these changes (which touch places like x86,
wireless, and staging) should go through either the x86 tree, or
through akpm's tree.

Alternatively, if the reviews are positive and I can get SOBs from the
relevant maintainers, I can set up a platform-olpc tree somewhere and
request a pull from Linus.

^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 21+ messages in thread
* [PATCH 0/9] OLPC: create a generic OLPC EC driver
@ 2012-07-19  4:21 Andres Salomon
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 21+ messages in thread
From: Andres Salomon @ 2012-07-19  4:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Morton
  Cc: Paul Fox, Daniel Drake, Richard A. Smith, linux-kernel,
	libertas-dev, linux-wireless, netdev, platform-driver-x86, devel,
	Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar, H. Peter Anvin, x86, Dan Williams,
	John W. Linville, Matthew Garrett, Anton Vorontsov,
	David Woodhouse, Chris Ball, Jon Nettleton, Greg Kroah-Hartman

The OLPC EC (Embedded Controller) code that is currently upstream is
x86-only, originally written for the XO-1.  Since then, we've had the
XO-1.5 (also x86), and XO-1.75 (arm-based) enter mass production.  The
1.75 uses a vastly different EC protocol, and future hardware revisions
are likely to change it even further.

However, the drivers do share quite a bit of code, so it makes sense to
have a platform-agnostic driver that calls into platform-specific hooks
for each XO's EC driver.  This is the first stab and creating such a
beast (with further patches pending).  Aside from the lack of code
duplication, this is helpful for fixing bugs in one place (for example,
we fixed an EC suspend/resume bug in 1.75 that I've just seen happen on
1.5 without these patches.  With these patches, the problem goes away).

These patches are against Linus's current HEAD; let me know if they
don't apply somewhere, and I'll happily redo them against the -next
tree.  I'm assuming that these changes (which touch places like x86,
wireless, and staging) should go through either the x86 tree, or
through akpm's tree.

Alternatively, if the reviews are positive and I can get SOBs from the
relevant maintainers, I can set up a platform-olpc tree somewhere and
request a pull from Linus.

^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 21+ messages in thread

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2012-07-19  1:21 [PATCH 0/9] OLPC: create a generic OLPC EC driver Andres Salomon
2012-07-19  1:25 ` [PATCH 1/9] Platform: OLPC: add a stub to drivers/platform/ for the " Andres Salomon
2012-07-19  1:26 ` [PATCH 2/9] drivers: OLPC: update various drivers to include olpc-ec.h Andres Salomon
2012-07-19  1:26 ` [PATCH 3/9] Platform: OLPC: allow EC cmd to be overridden, and create a workqueue to call it Andres Salomon
2012-07-19  1:27 ` [PATCH 4/9] Platform: OLPC: turn EC driver into a platform_driver Andres Salomon
2012-07-19  1:29 ` [PATCH 5/9] Platform: OLPC: add a suspended flag to the EC driver Andres Salomon
2012-07-19  1:31 ` [PATCH 6/9] x86: OLPC: switch over to using new EC driver on x86 Andres Salomon
2012-07-19  1:31 ` [PATCH 7/9] Platform: OLPC: move debugfs support from x86 EC driver Andres Salomon
2012-07-19  1:32 ` [PATCH 8/9] Platform: OLPC: move global variables into priv struct Andres Salomon
2012-07-19  1:32 ` [PATCH 9/9] x86: OLPC: move s/r-related EC cmds to EC driver Andres Salomon
2012-07-19  4:26 ` [PATCH 1/9] Platform: OLPC: add a stub to drivers/platform/ for the OLPC " Andres Salomon
2012-07-19  4:26 ` [PATCH 2/9] drivers: OLPC: update various drivers to include olpc-ec.h Andres Salomon
2012-07-19  4:28 ` [PATCH 3/9] Platform: OLPC: allow EC cmd to be overridden, and create a workqueue to call it Andres Salomon
2012-07-19  4:28 ` [PATCH 4/9] Platform: OLPC: turn EC driver into a platform_driver Andres Salomon
2012-07-19  4:28 ` [PATCH 5/9] Platform: OLPC: add a suspended flag to the EC driver Andres Salomon
2012-07-19  4:28 ` [PATCH 6/9] x86: OLPC: switch over to using new EC driver on x86 Andres Salomon
2012-07-19  4:36   ` Andres Salomon
2012-07-19  4:28 ` [PATCH 7/9] Platform: OLPC: move debugfs support from x86 EC driver Andres Salomon
2012-07-19  4:29 ` [PATCH 8/9] Platform: OLPC: move global variables into priv struct Andres Salomon
2012-07-19  4:29 ` [PATCH 9/9] x86: OLPC: move s/r-related EC cmds to EC driver Andres Salomon
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