Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] leds/powernv: Add driver for PowerNV platform

2015-04-20 Thread Jacek Anaszewski
Resending, as there were some problems with delivering this message. Original Message Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] leds/powernv: Add driver for PowerNV platform Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 13:34:17 +0200 From: Jacek Anaszewski To: Vasant Hegde CC: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linu

Re: Fwd: Re: sparc64: Build failure due to commit f1600e549b94 (sparc: Make sparc64 use scalable lib/iommu-common.c functions)

2015-04-20 Thread Michael Ellerman
On Sun, 2015-04-19 at 22:17 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > Hi Michael, Hi Guenter, > On 04/19/2015 08:01 PM, Michael Ellerman wrote: > > > Someone needs to be doing s390/alpha builds with that enabled anyway, > > because > > otherwise a clash between generic code and s390/alpha won't be caught.

[PATCH v3 0/3] LED interface for PowerNV platform

2015-04-20 Thread Vasant Hegde
The following series implements LED driver for PowerNV platform. PowerNV platform has below type of LEDs: - System attention Indicates there is a problem with the system that needs attention. - Identify Helps the user locate/identify a particular FRU or resource in the system

[PATCH v3 1/3] powerpc/powernv: Add OPAL interfaces for accessing and modifying system LED states

2015-04-20 Thread Vasant Hegde
From: Anshuman Khandual This patch registers the following two new OPAL interfaces calls for the platform LED subsystem. With the help of these new OPAL calls, the kernel will be able to get or set the state of various individual LEDs on the system at any given location code which is passed throu

[PATCH v3 3/3] leds/powernv: Add driver for PowerNV platform

2015-04-20 Thread Vasant Hegde
This patch implements LED driver for PowerNV platform using the existing generic LED class framework. PowerNV platform has below type of LEDs: - System attention Indicates there is a problem with the system that needs attention. - Identify Helps the user locate/identify a particula

[PATCH v3 2/3] powerpc/powernv: Create LED platform device

2015-04-20 Thread Vasant Hegde
This patch adds paltform devices for leds. Also export LED related OPAL API's so that led driver can use these APIs. Signed-off-by: Vasant Hegde Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual Acked-by: Stewart Smith Tested-by: Stewart Smith --- Since this is the split of origianal LED patch, I have retained

Re: [PATCH v6 3/3] powerpc/powernv: Introduce sysfs control for fastsleep workaround behavior

2015-04-20 Thread Preeti U Murthy
On 04/20/2015 10:32 AM, Shreyas B. Prabhu wrote: > Fastsleep is one of the idle state which cpuidle subsystem currently > uses on power8 machines. In this state L2 cache is brought down to a > threshold voltage. Therefore when the core is in fastsleep, the > communication between L2 and L3 needs to

[RFC] powerpc, tm: Drop tm_orig_msr from thread_struct

2015-04-20 Thread Anshuman Khandual
Currently tm_orig_msr is getting used during process context switch only. Then there is ckpt_regs which saves the checkpointed userspace context The MSR slot contained in ckpt_regs structure can be used during process context switch instead of tm_orig_msr, thus allowing us to drop it from thread_st

Re: [PATCH 11/11] k_clock:Remove the 32bit methods with timespec type

2015-04-20 Thread Richard Cochran
On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 01:57:39PM +0800, Baolin Wang wrote: > @@ -911,18 +907,14 @@ retry: > return -EINVAL; > > kc = clockid_to_kclock(timr->it_clock); > - if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!kc || (!kc->timer_set && !kc->timer_set64))) { > + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!kc || !kc->timer_set64)

RE: [RFC,1/8] soc/fman: Add FMan MURAM support

2015-04-20 Thread igal.liber...@freescale.com
Regards, Igal Liberman. > -Original Message- > From: Kumar Gala [mailto:ga...@kernel.crashing.org] > Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2015 5:57 PM > To: Liberman Igal-B31950 > Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org; net...@vger.kernel.org; linux- > ker...@vger.kernel.org; Wood Scott-B07421 > Subject

Re: [PATCH 11/11] k_clock:Remove the 32bit methods with timespec type

2015-04-20 Thread Baolin Wang
On 20 April 2015 at 16:42, Richard Cochran wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 01:57:39PM +0800, Baolin Wang wrote: > > > @@ -911,18 +907,14 @@ retry: > > return -EINVAL; > > > > kc = clockid_to_kclock(timr->it_clock); > > - if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!kc || (!kc->timer_set && !kc->tim

Re: [PATCH 01/11] linux/time64.h:Introduce the 'struct itimerspec64' for 64bit

2015-04-20 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Hello. On 4/20/2015 8:57 AM, Baolin Wang wrote: This patch introduces the 'struct itimerspec64' for 64bit to replace itimerspec, and also introduces the conversion methods: itimerspec64_to_itimerspec() and itimerspec_to_itimerspec64(), that makes itimerspec to ready for 2038 year. "To" not

Re: [PATCH 0/2] powerpc/kvm: Enable running guests on RT Linux

2015-04-20 Thread Purcareata Bogdan
On 10.04.2015 02:53, Scott Wood wrote: On Thu, 2015-04-09 at 10:44 +0300, Purcareata Bogdan wrote: So at this point I was getting kinda frustrated so I decided to measure the time spend in kvm_mpic_write and kvm_mpic_read. I assumed these were the main entry points in the in-kernel MPIC and were

RE: [v3] dt/bindings: qoriq-clock: Add binding for FMan clock mux

2015-04-20 Thread igal.liber...@freescale.com
Regards, Igal Liberman. > -Original Message- > From: Wood Scott-B07421 > Sent: Friday, April 17, 2015 8:41 AM > To: Liberman Igal-B31950 > Cc: devicet...@vger.kernel.org; linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org > Subject: Re: [v3] dt/bindings: qoriq-clock: Add binding for FMan clock mux > > On Th

RE: [PATCH] powerpc/dts: Move pll0/1-div4 index

2015-04-20 Thread igal.liber...@freescale.com
Regards, Igal Liberman. > -Original Message- > From: Wood Scott-B07421 > Sent: Friday, April 17, 2015 8:42 AM > To: Liberman Igal-B31950 > Cc: devicet...@vger.kernel.org; linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org > Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/dts: Move pll0/1-div4 index > > On Thu, 2015-04-16 at 1

RE: [v3] dt/bindings: qoriq-clock: Add binding for FMan clock mux

2015-04-20 Thread igal.liber...@freescale.com
Regards, Igal Liberman. > -Original Message- > From: Liberman Igal-B31950 > Sent: Monday, April 20, 2015 2:07 PM > To: Wood Scott-B07421 > Cc: devicet...@vger.kernel.org; linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org > Subject: RE: [v3] dt/bindings: qoriq-clock: Add binding for FMan clock mux > > > >

RE: [PATCH 07/11] powerpc/8xx: macro for handling CPU15 errata

2015-04-20 Thread David Laight
From: Christophe Leroy > Sent: 20 April 2015 06:27 > Having a macro will help keep clear code. ... > * We have to use the MD_xxx registers for the tablewalk because the > * equivalent MI_xxx registers only perform the attribute functions. > */ > + > +#ifdef CONFIG_8xx_CPU15 > +#define DO_8xx_

Re: [PATCH 07/11] powerpc/8xx: macro for handling CPU15 errata

2015-04-20 Thread leroy christophe
Le 20/04/2015 13:40, David Laight a écrit : From: Christophe Leroy Sent: 20 April 2015 06:27 Having a macro will help keep clear code. ... * We have to use the MD_xxx registers for the tablewalk because the * equivalent MI_xxx registers only perform the attribute functions. */ + +#i

Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] leds/powernv: Add driver for PowerNV platform

2015-04-20 Thread Jacek Anaszewski
Hi Vasant, I'd like to clarify some details regarding your explanation. On 04/15/2015 12:15 PM, Vasant Hegde wrote: [...] In Power Systems LEDs are overloaded (meaning same LED is used for identify and fault depending on their state --- blinking = identify and solid = fault). Hence here appe

Re: [PATCH 01/11] linux/time64.h:Introduce the 'struct itimerspec64' for 64bit

2015-04-20 Thread Baolin Wang
On 20 April 2015 at 17:49, Sergei Shtylyov < sergei.shtyl...@cogentembedded.com> wrote: > Hello. > > On 4/20/2015 8:57 AM, Baolin Wang wrote: > > This patch introduces the 'struct itimerspec64' for 64bit to replace >> itimerspec, >> and also introduces the conversion methods: itimerspec64_to_itim

Re: [V6,1/9] elf: Add new powerpc specifc core note sections

2015-04-20 Thread Ulrich Weigand
Anshuman Khandual wrote on 13.04.2015 10:48:57: > On 04/10/2015 04:03 PM, Ulrich Weigand wrote: > > - You provide checkpointed FPR and VMX registers, but there doesn't seem > > to be any way to get at the checkpointed *VSX* registers (i.e. the part > > that is neither covered by FPR or VMX, co

Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] leds/powernv: Add driver for PowerNV platform

2015-04-20 Thread Vasant Hegde
On 04/20/2015 05:15 PM, Jacek Anaszewski wrote: > Hi Vasant, > > I'd like to clarify some details regarding your explanation. > > On 04/15/2015 12:15 PM, Vasant Hegde wrote: > [...] In Power Systems LEDs are overloaded (meaning same LED is used for identify and fault dependin

[PATCH v2 0/5] KVM events analysis on powerpc with perf

2015-04-20 Thread Hemant Kumar
Hello! This patchset enables "perf kvm stat record/report" on powerpc, which can be used to analyze certain KVM events : KVM exits and hypervisor calls. The statistics can be shown individually for each running VM in the host and hence, can be useful in giving an idea of the performance of a VM on

[PATCH v2 1/5] kvm/powerpc: Export exit reasons as uapi

2015-04-20 Thread Hemant Kumar
To analyze the kvm exits with perf, we will need to map the exit codes with the exit reasons. Such a mapping exists today in trace_book3s.h. But its not exported to tools like perf. This patch moves these kvm exit reasons and their mapping from "arch/powerpc/kvm/trace_book3s.h" to "arch/powerpc/in

[PATCH v2 2/5] kvm/powerpc: Add exit reason for return code 0x0

2015-04-20 Thread Hemant Kumar
This patch adds an exit reason "RETURN_TO_HOST" for the return code 0x0. Signed-off-by: Hemant Kumar --- arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/trace_book3s.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/trace_book3s.h b/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/trace_book3s.h i

[PATCH v2 3/5] perf/kvm: KVM exit events analysis

2015-04-20 Thread Hemant Kumar
From: Srikar Dronamraju This patch adds KVM exit event analysis support to perf for powerpc. - Trace KVM events : perf kvm stat record If many guests are running, we can track for a specific guest by using --pid as in : perf kvm stat record --pid - Show the results : perf kvm stat re

[PATCH v2 4/5] kvm/powerpc: Move HCALL reason codes to uapi

2015-04-20 Thread Hemant Kumar
For tools like perf to analyze the KVM events like hcalls, we need the hypervisor calls and their codes to be exported through uapi. This patch moves most of the pSeries hcall codes from arch/powerpc/include/asm/hvcall.h to arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/hcall_codes.h. It also moves the mapping fr

[PATCH v2 5/5] perf/kvm: HCALL events analysis

2015-04-20 Thread Hemant Kumar
This patch adds KVM hypervisor call analysis to perf for powerpc. - Trace hcall events : perf kvm stat record - Show the results : perf kvm stat report --event=hcall The results show the number of hypervisor calls from the guest grouped into their respective reasons displayed with the frequ

Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] leds/powernv: Add driver for PowerNV platform

2015-04-20 Thread Jacek Anaszewski
On 04/20/2015 02:34 PM, Vasant Hegde wrote: On 04/20/2015 05:15 PM, Jacek Anaszewski wrote: Hi Vasant, I'd like to clarify some details regarding your explanation. On 04/15/2015 12:15 PM, Vasant Hegde wrote: [...] In Power Systems LEDs are overloaded (meaning same LED is used for identify an

Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] powerpc/powernv: Add OPAL interfaces for accessing and modifying system LED states

2015-04-20 Thread Jacek Anaszewski
Hi Vasant, Anshuman, Thanks for the update. On 04/20/2015 09:59 AM, Vasant Hegde wrote: From: Anshuman Khandual This patch registers the following two new OPAL interfaces calls for the platform LED subsystem. With the help of these new OPAL calls, the kernel will be able to get or set the sta

Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] leds/powernv: Add driver for PowerNV platform

2015-04-20 Thread Jacek Anaszewski
Hi Vasant, Thanks for the update. On 04/20/2015 10:01 AM, Vasant Hegde wrote: This patch implements LED driver for PowerNV platform using the existing generic LED class framework. PowerNV platform has below type of LEDs: - System attention Indicates there is a problem with the system

Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] leds/powernv: Add driver for PowerNV platform

2015-04-20 Thread Vasant Hegde
On 04/20/2015 08:50 PM, Jacek Anaszewski wrote: > On 04/20/2015 02:34 PM, Vasant Hegde wrote: >> On 04/20/2015 05:15 PM, Jacek Anaszewski wrote: >>> Hi Vasant, >>> >>> I'd like to clarify some details regarding your explanation. >>> >>> On 04/15/2015 12:15 PM, Vasant Hegde wrote: >>> [...] >> >

Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] powerpc/powernv: Add OPAL interfaces for accessing and modifying system LED states

2015-04-20 Thread Vasant Hegde
On 04/20/2015 08:51 PM, Jacek Anaszewski wrote: > Hi Vasant, Anshuman, > Jacek, .../... >> + >> +/* LED location */ >> +#define LED_LOC_ENCLOSURE"enclosure" >> +#define LED_LOC_DESCENDENT"descendent" > > These macros should also have POWERNV_LED prefix. Oh yeah.. I should fix this as

Re: sparc64: Build failure due to commit f1600e549b94 (sparc: Make sparc64 use scalable lib/iommu-common.c functions)

2015-04-20 Thread David Miller
From: Guenter Roeck Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 22:17:21 -0700 > The debug option is intended for all _other_ architectures, to > ensure that changes made for those don't break alpha/s390 > builds. alpha/s390 have ARCH_NEEDS_WEAK_PER_CPU and don't need the > debug option. Ironically this would not cr

Re: sparc64: Build failure due to commit f1600e549b94 (sparc: Make sparc64 use scalable lib/iommu-common.c functions)

2015-04-20 Thread Guenter Roeck
On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 12:25:19PM -0400, David Miller wrote: > From: Guenter Roeck > Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 22:17:21 -0700 > > > The debug option is intended for all _other_ architectures, to > > ensure that changes made for those don't break alpha/s390 > > builds. alpha/s390 have ARCH_NEEDS_WEA

Re: sparc64: Build failure due to commit f1600e549b94 (sparc: Make sparc64 use scalable lib/iommu-common.c functions)

2015-04-20 Thread David Miller
From: Guenter Roeck Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 09:44:31 -0700 > On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 12:25:19PM -0400, David Miller wrote: >> From: Guenter Roeck >> Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 22:17:21 -0700 >> >> > The debug option is intended for all _other_ architectures, to >> > ensure that changes made for thos

Re: [PATCH] powerpc/dts: Move pll0/1-div4 index

2015-04-20 Thread Scott Wood
On Mon, 2015-04-20 at 06:10 -0500, Liberman Igal-B31950 wrote: > > > Regards, > Igal Liberman. > > > -Original Message- > > From: Wood Scott-B07421 > > Sent: Friday, April 17, 2015 8:42 AM > > To: Liberman Igal-B31950 > > Cc: devicet...@vger.kernel.org; linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org > >

Re: [PATCH 03/11] time/hrtimer:Introduce hrtimer_get_res64() with timespec64 type for getting the timer resolution

2015-04-20 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 20 Apr 2015, Baolin Wang wrote: > This patch introduces hrtimer_get_res64() function to get the timer resolution > with timespec64 type, and moves the hrtimer_get_res() function into FYI, That function is about to go away, but it's not a big deal to sort that out once I applied the hrtimer

Re: [PATCH 01/11] linux/time64.h:Introduce the 'struct itimerspec64' for 64bit

2015-04-20 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 20 Apr 2015, Baolin Wang wrote: > This patch introduces the 'struct itimerspec64' for 64bit to replace > itimerspec, > and also introduces the conversion methods: itimerspec64_to_itimerspec() and > itimerspec_to_itimerspec64(), that makes itimerspec to ready for 2038 year. > > Signed-off-

Re: [PATCH 01/11] linux/time64.h:Introduce the 'struct itimerspec64' for 64bit

2015-04-20 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 20 Apr 2015, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Mon, 20 Apr 2015, Baolin Wang wrote: > > This patch introduces the 'struct itimerspec64' for 64bit to replace > > itimerspec, > > and also introduces the conversion methods: itimerspec64_to_itimerspec() and > > itimerspec_to_itimerspec64(), that mak

Re: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms

2015-04-20 Thread Scott Wood
On Sat, 2015-04-18 at 08:46 -0500, Timur Tabi wrote: > On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 11:53 PM, Lijun Pan wrote: > > > Have just sent out a patch considering the previous discussion. > > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/462249/ > > [PATCH] powerpc/defconfig: new way of writing defconfig > > The abilit

Re: [PATCH 04/11] posix timers:Introduce the 64bit methods with timespec64 type for k_clock structure

2015-04-20 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 20 Apr 2015, Baolin Wang wrote: > @@ -771,6 +771,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(timer_gettime, timer_t, timer_id, > struct itimerspec __user *, setting) > { > struct itimerspec cur_setting; > + struct itimerspec64 cur_setting64; > struct k_itimer *timr; > struct k

Re: [PATCH 05/11] time/posix-timers:Convert to the 64bit methods for k_clock callback functions

2015-04-20 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 20 Apr 2015, Baolin Wang wrote: > /* Set clock_realtime */ > static int posix_clock_realtime_set(const clockid_t which_clock, > - const struct timespec *tp) > + const struct timespec64 *tp) > { > - return do_sys_settimeo

Re: [PATCH 09/11] cputime:Introduce the cputime_to_timespec64/timespec64_to_cputime function

2015-04-20 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 20 Apr 2015, Baolin Wang wrote: > This patch introduces some functions for converting cputime to timespec64 and > back, > that repalce the timespec type with timespec64 type, as well as for arch/s390 > and > arch/powerpc architecture. No. We want a patch which adds the functions and the

Re: [RFC,1/8] soc/fman: Add FMan MURAM support

2015-04-20 Thread Scott Wood
On Mon, 2015-04-20 at 03:58 -0500, Liberman Igal-B31950 wrote: > > Regards, > Igal Liberman. > > > -Original Message- > > From: Kumar Gala [mailto:ga...@kernel.crashing.org] > > Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2015 5:57 PM > > To: Liberman Igal-B31950 > > Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org; net.

Re: [opensuse-ppc] HELP: test kernel patches on the real thing

2015-04-20 Thread larrystotler
-Original Message- From: Wolfram Sang Quoted from the opensuse-ppc mailing list >I'm Wolfram Sang, maintainer of the I2C subsystem of the Linux Kernel. I >want to get rid of an ancient mechanism in the I2C core which was used in the >2.4 era. There are only two users left; drivers for o

Re: [v3] dt/bindings: qoriq-clock: Add binding for FMan clock mux

2015-04-20 Thread Scott Wood
On Mon, 2015-04-20 at 06:40 -0500, Liberman Igal-B31950 wrote: > > > Regards, > Igal Liberman. > > > -Original Message- > > From: Liberman Igal-B31950 > > Sent: Monday, April 20, 2015 2:07 PM > > To: Wood Scott-B07421 > > Cc: devicet...@vger.kernel.org; linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org > >

Re: [PATCH 0/2] powerpc/kvm: Enable running guests on RT Linux

2015-04-20 Thread Scott Wood
On Mon, 2015-04-20 at 13:53 +0300, Purcareata Bogdan wrote: > On 10.04.2015 02:53, Scott Wood wrote: > > On Thu, 2015-04-09 at 10:44 +0300, Purcareata Bogdan wrote: > >> So at this point I was getting kinda frustrated so I decided to measure > >> the time spend in kvm_mpic_write and kvm_mpic_read.

[PATCHv2] ibmveth: Fix off-by-one error in ibmveth_change_mtu()

2015-04-20 Thread David Gibson
AFAIK the PAPR document which defines the virtual device interface used by the ibmveth driver doesn't specify a specific maximum MTU. So, in the ibmveth driver, the maximum allowed MTU is determined by the maximum allocated buffer size of 64k (corresponding to one page in the common case) minus th

Re: sparc64: Build failure due to commit f1600e549b94 (sparc: Make sparc64 use scalable lib/iommu-common.c functions)

2015-04-20 Thread Michael Ellerman
On Mon, 2015-04-20 at 12:50 -0400, David Miller wrote: > From: Guenter Roeck > Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 09:44:31 -0700 > > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 12:25:19PM -0400, David Miller wrote: > >> From: Guenter Roeck > >> Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 22:17:21 -0700 > >> > >> > The debug option is intended f

Re: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms

2015-04-20 Thread Timur Tabi
On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Scott Wood wrote: > > > The ability to merge configs is already there. We're just talking about > using that functionality. Why do you need a powerpc-specific way to use merge_config.sh? Other architectures have the same problem with defconfigs. Besides, wouldn

Re: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms

2015-04-20 Thread Scott Wood
On Mon, 2015-04-20 at 21:02 -0500, Timur Tabi wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Scott Wood wrote: > > > > > > The ability to merge configs is already there. We're just talking about > > using that functionality. > > Why do you need a powerpc-specific way to use merge_config.sh? Other >

Re: sparc64: Build failure due to commit f1600e549b94 (sparc: Make sparc64 use scalable lib/iommu-common.c functions)

2015-04-20 Thread Guenter Roeck
On 04/20/2015 06:54 PM, Michael Ellerman wrote: On Mon, 2015-04-20 at 12:50 -0400, David Miller wrote: From: Guenter Roeck Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 09:44:31 -0700 On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 12:25:19PM -0400, David Miller wrote: From: Guenter Roeck Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 22:17:21 -0700 The debu

Re: sparc64: Build failure due to commit f1600e549b94 (sparc: Make sparc64 use scalable lib/iommu-common.c functions)

2015-04-20 Thread Michael Ellerman
On Mon, 2015-04-20 at 19:32 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On 04/20/2015 06:54 PM, Michael Ellerman wrote: > > On Mon, 2015-04-20 at 12:50 -0400, David Miller wrote: > >> From: Guenter Roeck > >> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 09:44:31 -0700 > >> > >>> On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 12:25:19PM -0400, David Miller

Re: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms

2015-04-20 Thread Michael Ellerman
On Mon, 2015-04-20 at 21:02 -0500, Timur Tabi wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Scott Wood wrote: > > > > > > The ability to merge configs is already there. We're just talking about > > using that functionality. > > Why do you need a powerpc-specific way to use merge_config.sh? Other >

Re: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms

2015-04-20 Thread Timur Tabi
Scott Wood wrote: > >Why do you need a powerpc-specific way to use merge_config.sh? Other >architectures have the same problem with defconfigs. What are you perceiving as "powerpc-specific" about what we're proposing? Well, there's the subject of this thread, which is "new way of writing d

Re: [V6,1/9] elf: Add new powerpc specifc core note sections

2015-04-20 Thread Anshuman Khandual
On 04/20/2015 05:57 PM, Ulrich Weigand wrote: > Anshuman Khandual wrote on 13.04.2015 > 10:48:57: >> On 04/10/2015 04:03 PM, Ulrich Weigand wrote: >>> - You provide checkpointed FPR and VMX registers, but there doesn't > seem >>> to be any way to get at the checkpointed *VSX* registers (i.e. the

Re: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms

2015-04-20 Thread Scott Wood
On Mon, 2015-04-20 at 22:42 -0500, Timur Tabi wrote: > Scott Wood wrote: > >> > > >> >Why do you need a powerpc-specific way to use merge_config.sh? Other > >> >architectures have the same problem with defconfigs. > > > What are you perceiving as "powerpc-specific" about what we're > > proposing?

Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] leds/powernv: Add driver for PowerNV platform

2015-04-20 Thread Vasant Hegde
On 04/20/2015 08:57 PM, Jacek Anaszewski wrote: > Hi Vasant, > Jacek, Thanks for the review. > Thanks for the update. > > On 04/20/2015 10:01 AM, Vasant Hegde wrote: >> This patch implements LED driver for PowerNV platform using the existing >> generic LED class framework. >> >> PowerNV platfo

Re: powerpc/defconfig: new way of writing defconfig

2015-04-20 Thread Michael Ellerman
On Sat, 2015-18-04 at 04:47:21 UTC, Lijun Pan wrote: > It is always a headache dealing with different defconfigs > though they only differ in few places. Hence we are proposing a new > way of writing defconfig: So on the whole this is looking promising, some comments ... > 1. Define a basic defco