On Tue, 30 Aug 2016, Mika Westerberg wrote: > On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 10:13:30AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Aug 2016, Mika Westerberg wrote: > > > > > 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? > > > > Why does it need to go into the MTD tree? What are the *build* > > dependencies? > > The first patch adds include/linux/platform_data/intel-spi.h which is > needed by the second patch to fill in the platform data structure.
That's reasonable. I'm happy for the set to be routed via MTD. I do require a tagged immutable branch (with only these patches on) to pull from though. -- Lee Jones Linaro STMicroelectronics Landing Team Lead Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog
