linux-toradex.git/Documentation, branch v2.6.18

Revert mmiocfg heuristics and blacklist changes

2006-09-19T15:15:22+00:00

This reverts commits 11012d419cfc0e0f78ca356aca03674217910124 and
40dd2d20f220eda1cd0da8ea3f0f9db8971ba237, which allowed us to use the
MMIO accesses for PCI config cycles even without the area being marked
reserved in the e820 memory tables.

Those changes were needed for EFI-environment Intel macs, but broke some
newer Intel 965 boards, so for now it's better to revert to our old
2.6.17 behaviour and at least avoid introducing any new breakage.

Andi Kleen has a set of patches that work with both EFI and the broken
Intel 965 boards, which will be applied once they get wider testing.

Cc: Arjan van de Ven 
Cc: Edgar Hucek 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[NET]: Mark frame diverter for future removal.

2006-09-18T06:21:14+00:00

The code for frame diverter is unmaintained and has bitrotted.
The number of users is very small and the code has lots of problems.
If anyone is using it, they maybe exposing themselves to bad packet attacks.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[IPVS]: Document the ports option to ip_vs_ftp in kernel-parameters.txt

2006-09-18T06:21:03+00:00

I'm not sure if documenting this here is appropriate, but
if it is, here is some text to put there.

Signed-Off-By: Simon Horman 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[TCP]: Turn ABC off.

2006-09-18T06:21:02+00:00

Turn Appropriate Byte Count off by default because it unfairly
penalizes applications that do small writes.  Add better documentation
to describe what it is so users will understand why they might want to
turn it on.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[PATCH] cciss: version update, new hw

2006-09-13T14:32:16+00:00

Add support for new hardware and bumps the version to 3.6.10.  It seems
there were several changes introduced including soft_irq.  I decided to
bump the major number to reflect these changes.  Since we're still
supporting older vendor kernels I need some way differentiate between
kernel versions <=2.6.10 and newer kernels >=2.6.16.

Signed-off-by: Mike Miller 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] x86: reserve a boot-loader ID number for Xen

2006-09-13T14:32:14+00:00

Claim an ID number for Xen in the LOADER_TYPE field.

Also, keep the table in zero-page.txt consistent with boot.txt.

[hpa says: 6 was skipped because I couldn't rule out that it hadn't been
 unofficially used.  It seemed easier to skip it for now.]

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge 
Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] We can not allow anonymous contributions to the kernel

2006-09-13T14:32:14+00:00

The DCO does not mean anything if we allow anonymous contributors to the
kernel.  As this is an open source project, we need to do everything in the
open.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal, 2nd round

2006-09-01T18:39:09+00:00

This patch schedules obsolete OSS drivers (with ALSA drivers that support
the same hardware) for removal.

A rationale of the patch is in
  http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/11/186

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc

2006-08-31T04:44:06+00:00

* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc:
  [POWERPC] Fix return value from memcpy
  [POWERPC] iseries: Define insw et al. so libata/ide will compile
  [POWERPC] Fix irq enable/disable in smp_generic_take_timebase
  [POWERPC] Fix problem with time not advancing on 32-bit platforms
  [POWERPC] Restore copyright notice in arch/powerpc/kernel/fpu.S
  [POWERPC] Fix up ibm_architecture_vec definition
  [POWERPC] Make OF irq map code detect more error cases
  [POWERPC] Support for "weird" MPICs and fixup mpc7448_hpc2
  [POWERPC] Fix MPIC sense codes in documentation
  [POWERPC] Fix performance regression in IRQ radix tree locking
  [POWERPC] Add mpc7448hpc2 device tree source file
  [POWERPC] Add MPC8349E MDS device tree source file to arch/powerpc/boot/dts
  [POWERPC] modify mpc83xx platforms to use new IRQ layer
  [POWERPC] Adapt ipic driver to new host_ops interface, add set_irq_type to set IRQ sense
  [POWERPC] back up old school ipic.[hc] to arch/ppc
  [POWERPC] Use mpc8641hpcn PIC base address from dev tree.
  [POWERPC] Allow MPC8641 HPCN to build with CONFIG_PCI disabled too.
  [POWERPC] Fix powerpc 44x_mmu build
  [POWERPC] Remove flush_dcache_all export

[PATCH] x86: Disable MMCONFIG on Intel SDV using DMI blacklist

2006-08-30T23:05:16+00:00

As a replacement for the earlier removal of the e820 MCFG check
we blacklist the Intel SDV with the original BIOS bug that
motivated that check. On those machines don't use MMCONFIG.

This also adds a new pci=mmconf parameter to override the blacklist.

Cc: Greg KH 
Cc: Arjan van de Ven 
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds