linux.git/drivers/Kconfig, branch v2.6.23

Begin to consolidate of_device.c

2007-07-20T03:39:59+00:00

This moves all the common parts for the Sparc, Sparc64 and PowerPC
of_device.c files into drivers/of/device.c.

Apart from the simple move, Sparc gains of_match_node() and a call to
of_node_put in of_release_dev().  PowerPC gains better recovery if
device_create_file() fails in of_device_register().

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell 
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras 
Acked-by: David S. Miller

lguest: the Makefile and Kconfig

2007-07-19T17:04:52+00:00

This is the Kconfig and Makefile to allow lguest to actually be
compiled.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

UIO: Add the User IO core code

2007-07-18T22:57:15+00:00

This interface allows the ability to write the majority of a driver in
userspace with only a very small shell of a driver in the kernel itself.
It uses a char device and sysfs to interact with a userspace process to
process interrupts and control memory accesses.

See the docbook documentation for more details on how to use this
interface.

From: Hans J. Koch 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Benedikt Spranger 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/battery-2.6

2007-07-10T21:47:59+00:00

* git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/battery-2.6:
  [BATTERY] ds2760 W1 slave
  [BATTERY] One Laptop Per Child power/battery driver
  [BATTERY] Apple PMU driver
  [BATTERY] 1-Wire ds2760 chip battery driver
  [BATTERY] APM emulation driver for class batteries
  [BATTERY] pda_power platform driver
  [BATTERY] Universal power supply class (was: battery class)

[BATTERY] Universal power supply class (was: battery class)

2007-07-10T10:25:44+00:00

This class is result of "external power" and "battery" classes merge,
as suggested by David Woodhouse. He also implemented uevent support.

Here how userspace seeing it now:

    	# ls /sys/class/power\ supply/
    	ac  main-battery  usb

    	# cat /sys/class/power\ supply/ac/type
    	AC

    	# cat /sys/class/power\ supply/usb/type
    	USB

    	# cat /sys/class/power\ supply/main-battery/type
    	Battery

    	# cat /sys/class/power\ supply/ac/online
    	1

    	# cat /sys/class/power\ supply/usb/online
    	0

    	# cat /sys/class/power\ supply/main-battery/status
    	Charging

    	# cat /sys/class/leds/h5400\:red-left/trigger
    	none h5400-radio timer hwtimer ac-online usb-online
    	main-battery-charging-or-full [main-battery-charging]
    	main-battery-full

Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov 
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Remove legacy CDROM drivers

2007-07-10T06:03:34+00:00

They are all broken beyond repair. Given that nobody has complained
about them (most haven't worked in 2.6 AT ALL), remove them from the
tree.

A new mitsumi driver that actually works is in progress, it'll get
added when completed.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

[PATCH] drivers: add LCD support

2007-02-11T18:51:24+00:00

Add support for auxiliary displays, the ks0108 LCD controller, the
cfag12864b LCD and adds a framebuffer device: cfag12864bfb.

- Add a "auxdisplay/" folder in "drivers/" for auxiliary display
  drivers.

- Add support for the ks0108 LCD Controller as a device driver.  (uses
  parport interface)

- Add support for the cfag12864b LCD as a device driver.  (uses ks0108
  LCD Controller driver)

- Add a framebuffer device called cfag12864bfb.  (uses cfag12864b LCD
  driver)

- Add the usual Documentation, includes, Makefiles, Kconfigs,
  MAINTAINERS, CREDITS...

- Miguel Ojeda will maintain all the stuff above.

[rdunlap@xenotime.net: workqueue fixups]
[akpm@osdl.org: kconfig fix]
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda Sandonis 
Cc: Greg KH 
Acked-by: Paulo Marques 
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] kvm: userspace interface

2006-12-10T17:57:22+00:00

web site: http://kvm.sourceforge.net

mailing list: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
  (http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel)

The following patchset adds a driver for Intel's hardware virtualization
extensions to the x86 architecture.  The driver adds a character device
(/dev/kvm) that exposes the virtualization capabilities to userspace.  Using
this driver, a process can run a virtual machine (a "guest") in a fully
virtualized PC containing its own virtual hard disks, network adapters, and
display.

Using this driver, one can start multiple virtual machines on a host.

Each virtual machine is a process on the host; a virtual cpu is a thread in
that process.  kill(1), nice(1), top(1) work as expected.  In effect, the
driver adds a third execution mode to the existing two: we now have kernel
mode, user mode, and guest mode.  Guest mode has its own address space mapping
guest physical memory (which is accessible to user mode by mmap()ing
/dev/kvm).  Guest mode has no access to any I/O devices; any such access is
intercepted and directed to user mode for emulation.

The driver supports i386 and x86_64 hosts and guests.  All combinations are
allowed except x86_64 guest on i386 host.  For i386 guests and hosts, both pae
and non-pae paging modes are supported.

SMP hosts and UP guests are supported.  At the moment only Intel
hardware is supported, but AMD virtualization support is being worked on.

Performance currently is non-stellar due to the naive implementation of the
mmu virtualization, which throws away most of the shadow page table entries
every context switch.  We plan to address this in two ways:

- cache shadow page tables across tlb flushes
- wait until AMD and Intel release processors with nested page tables

Currently a virtual desktop is responsive but consumes a lot of CPU.  Under
Windows I tried playing pinball and watching a few flash movies; with a recent
CPU one can hardly feel the virtualization.  Linux/X is slower, probably due
to X being in a separate process.

In addition to the driver, you need a slightly modified qemu to provide I/O
device emulation and the BIOS.

Caveats (akpm: might no longer be true):

- The Windows install currently bluescreens due to a problem with the
  virtual APIC.  We are working on a fix.  A temporary workaround is to
  use an existing image or install through qemu
- Windows 64-bit does not work.  That's also true for qemu, so it's
  probably a problem with the device model.

[bero@arklinux.org: build fix]
[simon.kagstrom@bth.se: build fix, other fixes]
[uril@qumranet.com: KVM: Expose interrupt bitmap]
[akpm@osdl.org: i386 build fix]
[mingo@elte.hu: i386 fixes]
[rdreier@cisco.com: add log levels to all printks]
[randy.dunlap@oracle.com: Fix sparse NULL and C99 struct init warnings]
[anthony@codemonkey.ws: KVM: AMD SVM: 32-bit host support]
Signed-off-by: Yaniv Kamay 
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity 
Cc: Simon Kagstrom 
Cc: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 
Signed-off-by: Uri Lublin 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Roland Dreier 
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap 
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Generic HID layer - build

2006-12-08T18:43:20+00:00

This modifies Makefiles and Kconfigs to properly reflect the creation of
generic HID layer.

It also removes the dependency of BROKEN, which was introduced by the
first patch in series (see the comment). Also updates credits.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina 
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann 
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] ioc4: Enable build on non-SN2

2006-10-17T15:18:42+00:00

The SGI PCI-RT card, based on the SGI IOC4 chip, will be made available on
Altix XE (x86_64) platforms in the near future.  As such it is now a
misnomer for the IOC4 base device driver to live under drivers/sn, and
would complicate builds for non-SN2.

This patch moves the IOC4 base driver code from drivers/sn to drivers/misc,
and updates the associated Makefiles and Kconfig files to allow building on
non-SN2 configs.  Due to the resulting change in link order, it is now
necessary to use late_initcall() for IOC4 subdriver initialization.

[akpm@osdl.org: __udivdi3 fix]
[akpm@osdl.org: fix default in Kconfig]
Acked-by: Pat Gefre 
Acked-by: Jeremy Higdon 
Signed-off-by: Brent Casavant 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds