Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] i2c_imc: New driver for Intel's iMC, found on LGA2011 chips

2015-06-17 Thread Wolfram Sang
Having said that, I am still not convinced that the driver should be in the kernel to start with. Browsing through Intel's datasheets, the registers are supported in E5-2600 v1, v2, and v3. However, in v3 Intel added a note saying that the registers should not be accessed by the

Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] i2c_imc: New driver for Intel's iMC, found on LGA2011 chips

2015-06-17 Thread Guenter Roeck
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 03:18:42PM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote: Having said that, I am still not convinced that the driver should be in the kernel to start with. Browsing through Intel's datasheets, the registers are supported in E5-2600 v1, v2, and v3. However, in v3 Intel added

Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] i2c_imc: New driver for Intel's iMC, found on LGA2011 chips

2015-03-17 Thread Andy Lutomirski
On Mar 13, 2015 9:15 PM, Guenter Roeck li...@roeck-us.net wrote: On 03/09/2015 01:55 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: Sandy Bridge Xeon and Extreme chips have integrated memory controllers with (rather limited) onboard SMBUS masters. This driver gives access to the bus. There are various groups

Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] i2c_imc: New driver for Intel's iMC, found on LGA2011 chips

2015-03-13 Thread Guenter Roeck
On 03/09/2015 01:55 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: Sandy Bridge Xeon and Extreme chips have integrated memory controllers with (rather limited) onboard SMBUS masters. This driver gives access to the bus. There are various groups working on standardizing a way to arbitrate access to the bus between

[PATCH v2 1/2] i2c_imc: New driver for Intel's iMC, found on LGA2011 chips

2015-03-09 Thread Andy Lutomirski
Sandy Bridge Xeon and Extreme chips have integrated memory controllers with (rather limited) onboard SMBUS masters. This driver gives access to the bus. There are various groups working on standardizing a way to arbitrate access to the bus between the OS, SMM firmware, a BMC, hardware thermal