Re: [PATCH 0/1] misc: Add Tunnel creek In-Vehicle I2C loader driver

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Hi Mark

On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:10:43 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 10:49:02AM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> 
> > As a matter of fact, I have been discussing this with Intel people
> > recently:
> >   http://marc.info/?t=128683908500001&r=1&w=2
> > It is pretty clear that Intel have added board config support to x86
> > already, even though that change may not be public yet. So I can only
> > encourage you to discuss this with Jacob Pan, Feng Tang and Alan Cox.
> 
> That stuff is very specific to the Moorestown CPUs and a new BIOS type
> they have, the board_info part was posted on lkml about two weeks ago if
> you search through the archives.

My point still holds, regardless of what exactly Intel has in the
works: if board config is now needed on some x86 systems, then support
for it should be added in the same way other architectures did before.
I can't see any reason why x86 would be different.

-- 
Jean Delvare
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