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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus</title>
<updated>2015-06-27T19:44:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-27T19:44:34+00:00</published>
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Pull MIPS updates from Ralf Baechle:

 - Improvements to the tlb_dump code
 - KVM fixes
 - Add support for appended DTB
 - Minor improvements to the R12000 support
 - Minor improvements to the R12000 support
 - Various platform improvments for BCM47xx
 - The usual pile of minor cleanups
 - A number of BPF fixes and improvments
 - Some improvments to the support for R3000 and DECstations
 - Some improvments to the ATH79 platform support
 - A major patchset for the JZ4740 SOC adding support for the CI20 platform
 - Add support for the Pistachio SOC
 - Minor BMIPS/BCM63xx platform support improvments.
 - Avoid "SYNC 0" as memory barrier when unlocking spinlocks
 - Add support for the XWR-1750 board.
 - Paul's __cpuinit/__cpuinitdata cleanups.
 - New Malta CPU board support large memory so enable ZONE_DMA32.

* 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus: (131 commits)
  MIPS: spinlock: Adjust arch_spin_lock back-off time
  MIPS: asmmacro: Ensure 64-bit FP registers are used with MSA
  MIPS: BCM47xx: Simplify handling SPROM revisions
  MIPS: Cobalt Don't use module_init in non-modular MTD registration.
  MIPS: BCM47xx: Move NVRAM driver to the drivers/firmware/
  MIPS: use for_each_sg()
  MIPS: BCM47xx: Don't select BCMA_HOST_PCI
  MIPS: BCM47xx: Add helper variable for storing NVRAM length
  MIPS: IRQ/IP27: Move IRQ allocation API to platform code.
  MIPS: Replace smp_mb with release barrier function in unlocks.
  MIPS: i8259: DT support
  MIPS: Malta: Basic DT plumbing
  MIPS: include errno.h for ENODEV in mips-cm.h
  MIPS: Define GCR_GIC_STATUS register fields
  MIPS: BPF: Introduce BPF ASM helpers
  MIPS: BPF: Use BPF register names to describe the ABI
  MIPS: BPF: Move register definition to the BPF header
  MIPS: net: BPF: Replace RSIZE with SZREG
  MIPS: BPF: Free up some callee-saved registers
  MIPS: Xtalk: Update xwidget.h with known Xtalk device numbers
  ...
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Pull MIPS updates from Ralf Baechle:

 - Improvements to the tlb_dump code
 - KVM fixes
 - Add support for appended DTB
 - Minor improvements to the R12000 support
 - Minor improvements to the R12000 support
 - Various platform improvments for BCM47xx
 - The usual pile of minor cleanups
 - A number of BPF fixes and improvments
 - Some improvments to the support for R3000 and DECstations
 - Some improvments to the ATH79 platform support
 - A major patchset for the JZ4740 SOC adding support for the CI20 platform
 - Add support for the Pistachio SOC
 - Minor BMIPS/BCM63xx platform support improvments.
 - Avoid "SYNC 0" as memory barrier when unlocking spinlocks
 - Add support for the XWR-1750 board.
 - Paul's __cpuinit/__cpuinitdata cleanups.
 - New Malta CPU board support large memory so enable ZONE_DMA32.

* 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus: (131 commits)
  MIPS: spinlock: Adjust arch_spin_lock back-off time
  MIPS: asmmacro: Ensure 64-bit FP registers are used with MSA
  MIPS: BCM47xx: Simplify handling SPROM revisions
  MIPS: Cobalt Don't use module_init in non-modular MTD registration.
  MIPS: BCM47xx: Move NVRAM driver to the drivers/firmware/
  MIPS: use for_each_sg()
  MIPS: BCM47xx: Don't select BCMA_HOST_PCI
  MIPS: BCM47xx: Add helper variable for storing NVRAM length
  MIPS: IRQ/IP27: Move IRQ allocation API to platform code.
  MIPS: Replace smp_mb with release barrier function in unlocks.
  MIPS: i8259: DT support
  MIPS: Malta: Basic DT plumbing
  MIPS: include errno.h for ENODEV in mips-cm.h
  MIPS: Define GCR_GIC_STATUS register fields
  MIPS: BPF: Introduce BPF ASM helpers
  MIPS: BPF: Use BPF register names to describe the ABI
  MIPS: BPF: Move register definition to the BPF header
  MIPS: net: BPF: Replace RSIZE with SZREG
  MIPS: BPF: Free up some callee-saved registers
  MIPS: Xtalk: Update xwidget.h with known Xtalk device numbers
  ...
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<entry>
<title>MIPS: BCM47xx: Move NVRAM driver to the drivers/firmware/</title>
<updated>2015-06-21T19:55:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafał Miłecki</name>
<email>zajec5@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-10T21:05:08+00:00</published>
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After Broadcom switched from MIPS to ARM for their home routers we need
to have NVRAM driver in some common place (not arch/mips/). As explained
in Kconfig, this driver is responsible for parsing SoC configuration
data that is passed to the kernel in flash from the bootloader firmware
called "CFE".

We were thinking about putting it in bus directory, however there are
two possible buses for MIPS: drivers/ssb/ and drivers/bcma/. So this
won't fit there and this is why I would like to move this driver to the
drivers/firmware/.

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki &lt;zajec5@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paul Walmsley &lt;paul@pwsan.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Hauke Mehrtens &lt;hauke@hauke-m.de&gt;
Cc: Seiji Aguchi &lt;seiji.aguchi@hds.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Waychison &lt;mikew@google.com&gt;
Cc: Roy Franz &lt;roy.franz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/10544/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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After Broadcom switched from MIPS to ARM for their home routers we need
to have NVRAM driver in some common place (not arch/mips/). As explained
in Kconfig, this driver is responsible for parsing SoC configuration
data that is passed to the kernel in flash from the bootloader firmware
called "CFE".

We were thinking about putting it in bus directory, however there are
two possible buses for MIPS: drivers/ssb/ and drivers/bcma/. So this
won't fit there and this is why I would like to move this driver to the
drivers/firmware/.

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki &lt;zajec5@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paul Walmsley &lt;paul@pwsan.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Hauke Mehrtens &lt;hauke@hauke-m.de&gt;
Cc: Seiji Aguchi &lt;seiji.aguchi@hds.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Waychison &lt;mikew@google.com&gt;
Cc: Roy Franz &lt;roy.franz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/10544/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>firmware: qcom: scm: Split out 32-bit specific SCM code</title>
<updated>2015-04-28T19:20:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kumar Gala</name>
<email>galak@codeaurora.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-11T21:28:10+00:00</published>
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Split out the 32-bit SCM implementation into its own file to prep for
supporting a 64-bit/ARM64 implementation as well.  We create a simple shim
to ensure both versions conform to the same interface.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@codeaurora.org&gt;
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Split out the 32-bit SCM implementation into its own file to prep for
supporting a 64-bit/ARM64 implementation as well.  We create a simple shim
to ensure both versions conform to the same interface.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@codeaurora.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>firmware: qcom: scm: Move the scm driver to drivers/firmware</title>
<updated>2015-03-11T20:06:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kumar Gala</name>
<email>galak@codeaurora.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-26T21:49:09+00:00</published>
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Architectural changes in the ARM Linux kernel tree mandate the eventual
removal of the mach-* directories. Move the scm driver to
drivers/firmware and the scm header to include/linux to support that
removal.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@codeaurora.org&gt;
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Architectural changes in the ARM Linux kernel tree mandate the eventual
removal of the mach-* directories. Move the scm driver to
drivers/firmware and the scm header to include/linux to support that
removal.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@codeaurora.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/efi: Don't select EFI from certain special ACPI drivers</title>
<updated>2013-12-19T20:32:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Beulich</name>
<email>JBeulich@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-16T14:39:40+00:00</published>
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Commit 7ea6c6c1 ("Move cper.c from drivers/acpi/apei to
drivers/firmware/efi") results in CONFIG_EFI being enabled even
when the user doesn't want this. Since ACPI APEI used to build
fine without UEFI (and as far as I know also has no functional
depency on it), at least in that case using a reverse dependency
is wrong (and a straight one isn't needed).

Whether the same is true for ACPI_EXTLOG I don't know - if there
is a functional dependency, it should depend on EFI rather than
selecting it. It certainly has (currently) no build dependency.

Adjust Kconfig and build logic so that the bad dependency gets
avoided.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/52AF1EBC020000780010DBF9@nat28.tlf.novell.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Commit 7ea6c6c1 ("Move cper.c from drivers/acpi/apei to
drivers/firmware/efi") results in CONFIG_EFI being enabled even
when the user doesn't want this. Since ACPI APEI used to build
fine without UEFI (and as far as I know also has no functional
depency on it), at least in that case using a reverse dependency
is wrong (and a straight one isn't needed).

Whether the same is true for ACPI_EXTLOG I don't know - if there
is a functional dependency, it should depend on EFI rather than
selecting it. It certainly has (currently) no build dependency.

Adjust Kconfig and build logic so that the bad dependency gets
avoided.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/52AF1EBC020000780010DBF9@nat28.tlf.novell.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>efi: split efisubsystem from efivars</title>
<updated>2013-04-17T12:27:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Gundersen</name>
<email>teg@jklm.no</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-08T15:37:06+00:00</published>
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This registers /sys/firmware/efi/{,systab,efivars/} whenever EFI is enabled
and the system is booted with EFI.

This allows
 *) userspace to check for the existence of /sys/firmware/efi as a way
    to determine whether or it is running on an EFI system.
 *) 'mount -t efivarfs none /sys/firmware/efi/efivars' without manually
    loading any modules.

[ Also, move the efivar API into vars.c and unconditionally compile it.
  This allows us to move efivars.c, which now only contains the sysfs
  variable code, into the firmware/efi directory. Note that the efivars.c
  filename is kept to maintain backwards compatability with the old
  efivars.ko module. With this patch it is now possible for efivarfs
  to be built without CONFIG_EFI_VARS - Matt ]

Cc: Seiji Aguchi &lt;seiji.aguchi@hds.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Waychison &lt;mikew@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kay Sievers &lt;kay@vrfy.org&gt;
Cc: Jeremy Kerr &lt;jk@ozlabs.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Garrett &lt;mjg59@srcf.ucam.org&gt;
Cc: Chun-Yi Lee &lt;jlee@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Whitcroft &lt;apw@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Tobias Powalowski &lt;tpowa@archlinux.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen &lt;teg@jklm.no&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
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This registers /sys/firmware/efi/{,systab,efivars/} whenever EFI is enabled
and the system is booted with EFI.

This allows
 *) userspace to check for the existence of /sys/firmware/efi as a way
    to determine whether or it is running on an EFI system.
 *) 'mount -t efivarfs none /sys/firmware/efi/efivars' without manually
    loading any modules.

[ Also, move the efivar API into vars.c and unconditionally compile it.
  This allows us to move efivars.c, which now only contains the sysfs
  variable code, into the firmware/efi directory. Note that the efivars.c
  filename is kept to maintain backwards compatability with the old
  efivars.ko module. With this patch it is now possible for efivarfs
  to be built without CONFIG_EFI_VARS - Matt ]

Cc: Seiji Aguchi &lt;seiji.aguchi@hds.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Waychison &lt;mikew@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kay Sievers &lt;kay@vrfy.org&gt;
Cc: Jeremy Kerr &lt;jk@ozlabs.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Garrett &lt;mjg59@srcf.ucam.org&gt;
Cc: Chun-Yi Lee &lt;jlee@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Whitcroft &lt;apw@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Tobias Powalowski &lt;tpowa@archlinux.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen &lt;teg@jklm.no&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>efivars: Move pstore code into the new EFI directory</title>
<updated>2013-04-17T12:24:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matt Fleming</name>
<email>matt.fleming@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-08T15:48:51+00:00</published>
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efivars.c has grown far too large and needs to be divided up. Create a
new directory and move the persistence storage code to efi-pstore.c now
that it uses the new efivar API. This helps us to greatly reduce the
size of efivars.c and paves the way for moving other code out of
efivars.c.

Note that because CONFIG_EFI_VARS can be built as a module efi-pstore
must also include support for building as a module.

Reviewed-by: Tom Gundersen &lt;teg@jklm.no&gt;
Tested-by: Tom Gundersen &lt;teg@jklm.no&gt;
Cc: Seiji Aguchi &lt;seiji.aguchi@hds.com&gt;
Cc: Anton Vorontsov &lt;cbouatmailru@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Colin Cross &lt;ccross@android.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Garrett &lt;mjg59@srcf.ucam.org&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
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efivars.c has grown far too large and needs to be divided up. Create a
new directory and move the persistence storage code to efi-pstore.c now
that it uses the new efivar API. This helps us to greatly reduce the
size of efivars.c and paves the way for moving other code out of
efivars.c.

Note that because CONFIG_EFI_VARS can be built as a module efi-pstore
must also include support for building as a module.

Reviewed-by: Tom Gundersen &lt;teg@jklm.no&gt;
Tested-by: Tom Gundersen &lt;teg@jklm.no&gt;
Cc: Seiji Aguchi &lt;seiji.aguchi@hds.com&gt;
Cc: Anton Vorontsov &lt;cbouatmailru@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Colin Cross &lt;ccross@android.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Garrett &lt;mjg59@srcf.ucam.org&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ASoC: Move SigmaDSP firmware loader to ASoC</title>
<updated>2011-11-29T12:01:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lars-Peter Clausen</name>
<email>lars@metafoo.de</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-28T08:44:17+00:00</published>
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It has been pointed out previously, that the firmware subsystem is not the right
place for the SigmaDSP firmware loader. Furthermore the SigmaDSP is currently
only used in audio products and we are aiming for better integration into the
ASoC framework in the future, with support for ALSA controls for firmware
parameters and support dynamic power management as well. So the natural choice
for the SigmaDSP firmware loader is the ASoC subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen &lt;lars@metafoo.de&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier@gentoo.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com&gt;
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It has been pointed out previously, that the firmware subsystem is not the right
place for the SigmaDSP firmware loader. Furthermore the SigmaDSP is currently
only used in audio products and we are aiming for better integration into the
ASoC framework in the future, with support for ALSA controls for firmware
parameters and support dynamic power management as well. So the natural choice
for the SigmaDSP firmware loader is the ASoC subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen &lt;lars@metafoo.de&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier@gentoo.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Introduce CONFIG_GOOGLE_FIRMWARE</title>
<updated>2011-04-30T01:09:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Waychison</name>
<email>mikew@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-04-30T00:39:31+00:00</published>
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In order to keep Google's firmware drivers organized amongst themselves,
all Google firmware drivers are gated on CONFIG_GOOGLE_FIRMWARE=y, which
defaults to 'n' in the kernel build.

Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison &lt;mikew@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
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In order to keep Google's firmware drivers organized amongst themselves,
all Google firmware drivers are gated on CONFIG_GOOGLE_FIRMWARE=y, which
defaults to 'n' in the kernel build.

Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison &lt;mikew@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>driver: Google EFI SMI</title>
<updated>2011-04-30T01:09:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Waychison</name>
<email>mikew@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-04-30T00:39:19+00:00</published>
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The "gsmi" driver bridges userland with firmware specific routines for
accessing hardware.

Currently, this driver only supports NVRAM and eventlog information.
Deprecated functions have been removed from the driver, though their
op-codes are left in place so that they are not re-used.

This driver works by trampolining into the firmware via the smi_command
outlined in the FADT table.  Three protocols are used due to various
limitations over time, but all are included herein.

This driver should only ever load on Google boards, identified by either
a "Google, Inc." board vendor string in DMI, or "GOOGLE" in the OEM
strings of the FADT ACPI table.  This logic happens in
gsmi_system_valid().

Signed-off-by: Duncan Laurie &lt;dlaurie@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Aaron Durbin &lt;adurbin@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison &lt;mikew@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
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The "gsmi" driver bridges userland with firmware specific routines for
accessing hardware.

Currently, this driver only supports NVRAM and eventlog information.
Deprecated functions have been removed from the driver, though their
op-codes are left in place so that they are not re-used.

This driver works by trampolining into the firmware via the smi_command
outlined in the FADT table.  Three protocols are used due to various
limitations over time, but all are included herein.

This driver should only ever load on Google boards, identified by either
a "Google, Inc." board vendor string in DMI, or "GOOGLE" in the OEM
strings of the FADT ACPI table.  This logic happens in
gsmi_system_valid().

Signed-off-by: Duncan Laurie &lt;dlaurie@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Aaron Durbin &lt;adurbin@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison &lt;mikew@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
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