On Wed, 18 Jul 2012, Andres Salomon wrote: > 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. Either via akpm or a separate tree are fine with me. Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
