linux-toradex.git/drivers/Makefile, branch v2.6.35-rc2

intel_idle: native hardware cpuidle driver for latest Intel processors

2010-05-28T18:26:20+00:00

This EXPERIMENTAL driver supersedes acpi_idle on
Intel Atom Processors, Intel Core i3/i5/i7 Processors
and associated Intel Xeon processors.

It does not support the Intel Core2 processor or earlier.

For kernels configured with ACPI, CONFIG_INTEL_IDLE=y
allows intel_idle to probe before the ACPI processor driver.
Booting with "intel_idle.max_cstate=0" disables intel_idle
and the system will fall back on ACPI's "acpi_idle".

Typical Linux distributions load ACPI processor module early,
making CONFIG_INTEL_IDLE=m not easily useful on ACPI platforms.

intel_idle probes all processors at module_init time.
Processors that are hot-added later will be limited
to using C1 in idle.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown

virtio: initialize earlier

2010-05-07T21:01:17+00:00

Move initialization of the virtio framework before the initialization of
mtd, so that block2mtd can be used on virtio-based block devices.

Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15644

Signed-off-by: Stijn Tintel 
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell 
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'origin' into devel-stable

2010-03-08T20:21:04+00:00

Conflicts:
	arch/arm/mach-mx2/devices.c
	arch/arm/mach-mx2/devices.h
	sound/soc/pxa/pxa-ssp.c

sh: Build drivers/sh for ARM-based SH-Mobile CPUs.

2010-02-08T03:45:47+00:00

Build drivers/sh in the case of ARM-based SH-Mobile CPUs.
Shared code for the interrupt controller (INTC) and
the gpio/pinmux (PFC) is located there.

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt

vhost_net: a kernel-level virtio server

2010-01-15T09:43:29+00:00

What it is: vhost net is a character device that can be used to reduce
the number of system calls involved in virtio networking.
Existing virtio net code is used in the guest without modification.

There's similarity with vringfd, with some differences and reduced scope
- uses eventfd for signalling
- structures can be moved around in memory at any time (good for
  migration, bug work-arounds in userspace)
- write logging is supported (good for migration)
- support memory table and not just an offset (needed for kvm)

common virtio related code has been put in a separate file vhost.c and
can be made into a separate module if/when more backends appear.  I used
Rusty's lguest.c as the source for developing this part : this supplied
me with witty comments I wouldn't be able to write myself.

What it is not: vhost net is not a bus, and not a generic new system
call. No assumptions are made on how guest performs hypercalls.
Userspace hypervisors are supported as well as kvm.

How it works: Basically, we connect virtio frontend (configured by
userspace) to a backend. The backend could be a network device, or a tap
device.  Backend is also configured by userspace, including vlan/mac
etc.

Status: This works for me, and I haven't see any crashes.
Compared to userspace, people reported improved latency (as I save up to
4 system calls per packet), as well as better bandwidth and CPU
utilization.

Features that I plan to look at in the future:
- mergeable buffers
- zero copy
- scalability tuning: figure out the best threading model to use

Note on RCU usage (this is also documented in vhost.h, near
private_pointer which is the value protected by this variant of RCU):
what is happening is that the rcu_dereference() is being used in a
workqueue item.  The role of rcu_read_lock() is taken on by the start of
execution of the workqueue item, of rcu_read_unlock() by the end of
execution of the workqueue item, and of synchronize_rcu() by
flush_workqueue()/flush_work(). In the future we might need to apply
some gcc attribute or sparse annotation to the function passed to
INIT_WORK(). Paul's ack below is for this RCU usage.

(Includes fixes by Alan Cox ,
David L Stevens ,
Chris Wright )

Acked-by: Rusty Russell 
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" 
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6

2009-09-23T17:07:49+00:00

* git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6: (58 commits)
  mtd: jedec_probe: add PSD4256G6V id
  mtd: OneNand support for Nomadik 8815 SoC (on NHK8815 board)
  mtd: nand: driver for Nomadik 8815 SoC (on NHK8815 board)
  m25p80: Add Spansion S25FL129P serial flashes
  jffs2: Use SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN for jffs2_raw_{dirent,inode} slabs
  mtd: sh_flctl: register sh_flctl using platform_driver_probe()
  mtd: nand: txx9ndfmc: transfer 512 byte at a time if possible
  mtd: nand: fix tmio_nand ecc correction
  mtd: nand: add __nand_correct_data helper function
  mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002: add 0xFF intolerance for M29W128G
  mtd: inftl: fix fold chain block number
  mtd: jedec: fix compilation problem with I28F640C3B definition
  mtd: nand: fix ECC Correction bug for SMC ordering for NDFC driver
  mtd: ofpart: Check availability of reg property instead of name property
  driver/Makefile: Initialize "mtd" and "spi" before "net"
  mtd: omap: adding DMA mode support in nand prefetch/post-write
  mtd: omap: add support for nand prefetch-read and post-write
  mtd: add nand support for w90p910 (v2)
  mtd: maps: add mtd-ram support to physmap_of
  mtd: pxa3xx_nand: add single-bit error corrections reporting
  ...

driver/Makefile: Initialize "mtd" and "spi" before "net"

2009-09-19T20:21:10+00:00

On TI's da850/omap-l138 EVM, MAC address is stored in SPI flash.

This patch changes the initialization sequence of the drivers
by moving mtd and spi ahead of net in drivers/Makefile thereby
enabling da850/omap-l138 ethernet driver to read the MAC address
while booting.

Signed-off-by: Sudhakar Rajashekhara 
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse

SFI: add platform-independent core support

2009-08-28T23:57:33+00:00

drivers/sfi/sfi_core.c contains the generic SFI implementation.
It has a private header, sfi_core.h, for its own use and the
private use of future files in drivers/sfi/

Signed-off-by: Feng Tang 
Signed-off-by: Len Brown

LinuxPPS: core support

2009-06-18T20:04:04+00:00

This patch adds the kernel side of the PPS support currently named
"LinuxPPS".

PPS means "pulse per second" and a PPS source is just a device which
provides a high precision signal each second so that an application can
use it to adjust system clock time.

Common use is the combination of the NTPD as userland program with a GPS
receiver as PPS source to obtain a wallclock-time with sub-millisecond
synchronisation to UTC.

To obtain this goal the userland programs shoud use the PPS API
specification (RFC 2783 - Pulse-Per-Second API for UNIX-like Operating
Systems, Version 1.0) which in part is implemented by this patch.  It
provides a set of chars devices, one per PPS source, which can be used to
get the time signal.  The RFC's functions can be implemented by accessing
to these char devices.

Signed-off-by: Rodolfo Giometti 
Cc: David Woodhouse 
Cc: Greg KH 
Cc: Randy Dunlap 
Cc: Kay Sievers 
Acked-by: Alan Cox 
Cc: Michael Kerrisk 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Roman Zippel 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

drivers: add support for the TI VLYNQ bus

2009-06-17T02:47:52+00:00

Add support for the TI VLYNQ high-speed, serial and packetized bus.

This bus allows external devices to be connected to the System-on-Chip and
appear in the main system memory just like any memory mapped peripheral.
It is widely used in TI's networking and multimedia SoC, including the AR7
SoC.

Signed-off-by: Eugene Konev 
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Alan Cox 
Cc: Greg KH 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds