linux-toradex.git/Documentation, branch v3.8.4 Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules tty/serial: Add support for Altera serial port 2013-03-20T20:10:54+00:00 Ley Foon Tan lftan@altera.com 2013-03-07T02:28:37+00:00 ec99e285dbd0dfc65495b459b57b35e1ce5dc55c commit e06c93cacb82dd147266fd1bdb2d0a0bd45ff2c1 upstream. Add support for Altera 8250/16550 compatible serial port. Signed-off-by: Ley Foon Tan <lftan@altera.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit e06c93cacb82dd147266fd1bdb2d0a0bd45ff2c1 upstream.

Add support for Altera 8250/16550 compatible serial port.

Signed-off-by: Ley Foon Tan <lftan@altera.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
doc, kernel-parameters: Document 'console=hvc<n>' 2013-03-03T22:03:34+00:00 Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk konrad.wilk@oracle.com 2013-02-25T20:54:09+00:00 4ed62ead329b1d3dda942e44fdddbfb49ba50feb commit a2fd6419174470f5ae6383f5037d0ee21ed9833f upstream. Both the PowerPC hypervisor and Xen hypervisor can utilize the hvc driver. Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1361825650-14031-3-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit a2fd6419174470f5ae6383f5037d0ee21ed9833f upstream.

Both the PowerPC hypervisor and Xen hypervisor can utilize the
hvc driver.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1361825650-14031-3-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
doc, xen: Mention 'earlyprintk=xen' in the documentation. 2013-03-03T22:03:34+00:00 Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk konrad.wilk@oracle.com 2013-02-25T20:54:08+00:00 c53f3a52561e84be62fad7ac1a5e82e5cc678f5d commit 2482a92e7d17187301d7313cfe5021b13393a0b4 upstream. The earlyprintk for Xen PV guests utilizes a simple hypercall (console_io) to provide output to Xen emergency console. Note that the Xen hypervisor should be booted with 'loglevel=all' to output said information. Reported-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1361825650-14031-2-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit 2482a92e7d17187301d7313cfe5021b13393a0b4 upstream.

The earlyprintk for Xen PV guests utilizes a simple hypercall
(console_io) to provide output to Xen emergency console.

Note that the Xen hypervisor should be booted with 'loglevel=all'
to output said information.

Reported-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1361825650-14031-2-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
x86, doc: Add a bootloader ID for OVMF 2013-02-08T17:26:57+00:00 H. Peter Anvin hpa@linux.intel.com 2013-02-08T17:19:33+00:00 686966d881bd49bd6349b47c59dfc4bfc7b5e3b6 OVMF (an implementation of UEFI based on TianoCore used in virtual environments) now has the ability to boot Linux natively; this is used for "qemu -kernel" and similar things in a UEFI environment. Accordingly, assign it a bootloader ID. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> 
OVMF (an implementation of UEFI based on TianoCore used in virtual
environments) now has the ability to boot Linux natively; this is used
for "qemu -kernel" and similar things in a UEFI environment.

Accordingly, assign it a bootloader ID.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-02-04T20:59:44+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2013-02-04T20:59:44+00:00 3f4e5aacf754bad84dd54826ea3a77983e201c80 Pull x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar: "Three small fixlets" * 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/intel/cacheinfo: Shut up annoying warning x86, doc: Boot protocol 2.12 is in 3.8 x86-64: Replace left over sti/cli in ia32 audit exit code 
Pull x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Three small fixlets"

* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/intel/cacheinfo: Shut up annoying warning
  x86, doc: Boot protocol 2.12 is in 3.8
  x86-64: Replace left over sti/cli in ia32 audit exit code
Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-02-04T20:56:07+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2013-02-04T20:56:07+00:00 5dc31b576746de76dc86ed46fa3e4ec5f5ae504f Pull two small RCU fixlets from Ingo Molnar. * 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: rcu: Make rcu_nocb_poll an early_param instead of module_param rcu: Prevent soft-lockup complaints about no-CBs CPUs 
Pull two small RCU fixlets from Ingo Molnar.

* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  rcu: Make rcu_nocb_poll an early_param instead of module_param
  rcu: Prevent soft-lockup complaints about no-CBs CPUs
x86, doc: Boot protocol 2.12 is in 3.8 2013-02-01T04:23:49+00:00 H. Peter Anvin hpa@linux.intel.com 2013-02-01T04:23:49+00:00 972f7c832229781f09f03284cde484ccdb44d3ee The boot protocol 2.12 changes were pulled for 3.8, so update the documentation accordingly. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> 
The boot protocol 2.12 changes were pulled for 3.8, so update the
documentation accordingly.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Merge branch 'for-3.8/upstream-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid 2013-01-31T21:44:59+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2013-01-31T21:44:59+00:00 cf5425bfcd6909f9831a00bc06ccb9a5b163766a PullHID fixes from Jiri Kosina: - fix i2c-hid and hidraw interaction, by Benjamin Tissoires - a quirk to make a particular device (Formosa IR receiver) work properly, by Nicholas Santos * 'for-3.8/upstream-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid: HID: i2c-hid: fix i2c_hid_output_raw_report HID: usbhid: quirk for Formosa IR receiver HID: remove x bit from sensor doc 
PullHID fixes from Jiri Kosina:

 - fix i2c-hid and hidraw interaction, by Benjamin Tissoires

 - a quirk to make a particular device (Formosa IR receiver) work
   properly, by Nicholas Santos

* 'for-3.8/upstream-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid:
  HID: i2c-hid: fix i2c_hid_output_raw_report
  HID: usbhid: quirk for Formosa IR receiver
  HID: remove x bit from sensor doc
Merge branch 'x86-efi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-01-31T06:10:36+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2013-01-31T06:10:36+00:00 04c2eee5b9dfcb13f3cd07a5537fb8c785f2751a Pull x86 EFI fixes from Peter Anvin: "This is a collection of fixes for the EFI support. The controversial bit here is a set of patches which bumps the boot protocol version as part of fixing some serious problems with the EFI handover protocol, used when booting under EFI using a bootloader as opposed to directly from EFI. These changes should also make it a lot saner to support cross-mode 32/64-bit EFI booting in the future. Getting these changes into 3.8 means we avoid presenting an inconsistent ABI to bootloaders. Other changes are display detection and fixing efivarfs." * 'x86-efi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86, efi: remove attribute check from setup_efi_pci x86, build: Dynamically find entry points in compressed startup code x86, efi: Fix PCI ROM handing in EFI boot stub, in 32-bit mode x86, efi: Fix 32-bit EFI handover protocol entry point x86, efi: Fix display detection in EFI boot stub x86, boot: Define the 2.12 bzImage boot protocol x86/boot: Fix minor fd leakage in tools/relocs.c x86, efi: Set runtime_version to the EFI spec revision x86, efi: fix 32-bit warnings in setup_efi_pci() efivarfs: Delete dentry from dcache in efivarfs_file_write() efivarfs: Never return ENOENT from firmware efi, x86: Pass a proper identity mapping in efi_call_phys_prelog efivarfs: Drop link count of the right inode 
Pull x86 EFI fixes from Peter Anvin:
 "This is a collection of fixes for the EFI support.  The controversial
  bit here is a set of patches which bumps the boot protocol version as
  part of fixing some serious problems with the EFI handover protocol,
  used when booting under EFI using a bootloader as opposed to directly
  from EFI.  These changes should also make it a lot saner to support
  cross-mode 32/64-bit EFI booting in the future.  Getting these changes
  into 3.8 means we avoid presenting an inconsistent ABI to bootloaders.

  Other changes are display detection and fixing efivarfs."

* 'x86-efi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, efi: remove attribute check from setup_efi_pci
  x86, build: Dynamically find entry points in compressed startup code
  x86, efi: Fix PCI ROM handing in EFI boot stub, in 32-bit mode
  x86, efi: Fix 32-bit EFI handover protocol entry point
  x86, efi: Fix display detection in EFI boot stub
  x86, boot: Define the 2.12 bzImage boot protocol
  x86/boot: Fix minor fd leakage in tools/relocs.c
  x86, efi: Set runtime_version to the EFI spec revision
  x86, efi: fix 32-bit warnings in setup_efi_pci()
  efivarfs: Delete dentry from dcache in efivarfs_file_write()
  efivarfs: Never return ENOENT from firmware
  efi, x86: Pass a proper identity mapping in efi_call_phys_prelog
  efivarfs: Drop link count of the right inode
Merge tag 'md-3.8-fixes' of git://neil.brown.name/md 2013-01-28T23:15:34+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2013-01-28T23:15:34+00:00 f94d4fe0b5bbe8385245a1d9ef11d785c05df0da Pull dmraid fix from NeilBrown: "Just one fix for md in 3.8 dmraid assess redundancy and replacements slightly inaccurately which could lead to some degraded arrays failing to assemble." * tag 'md-3.8-fixes' of git://neil.brown.name/md: DM-RAID: Fix RAID10's check for sufficient redundancy 
Pull dmraid fix from NeilBrown:
 "Just one fix for md in 3.8

  dmraid assess redundancy and replacements slightly inaccurately which
  could lead to some degraded arrays failing to assemble."

* tag 'md-3.8-fixes' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
  DM-RAID: Fix RAID10's check for sufficient redundancy