linux.git/drivers/firmware, branch v2.6.15

[PATCH] dell_rbu: NULL noise removal

2005-12-15T18:04:30+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] dell_rbu driver depends on x86[64]

2005-11-22T17:13:44+00:00

This driver only appears on IA32 & EM64T boxes.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] changing CONFIG_LOCALVERSION rebuilds too much, for no good reason

2005-11-09T15:55:57+00:00

This patch removes almost all inclusions of linux/version.h.  The 3
#defines are unused in most of the touched files.

A few drivers use the simple KERNEL_VERSION(a,b,c) macro, which is
unfortunatly in linux/version.h.

There are also lots of #ifdef for long obsolete kernels, this was not
touched.  In a few places, the linux/version.h include was move to where
the LINUX_VERSION_CODE was used.

quilt vi `find * -type f -name "*.[ch]"|xargs grep -El '(UTS_RELEASE|LINUX_VERSION_CODE|KERNEL_VERSION|linux/version.h)'|grep -Ev '(/(boot|coda|drm)/|~$)'`

search pattern:
/UTS_RELEASE\|LINUX_VERSION_CODE\|KERNEL_VERSION\|linux\/\(utsname\|version\).h

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] drivers/firmware: kmalloc + memset -> kzalloc conversion

2005-11-07T15:54:00+00:00

Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] dell_rbu: Adding BIOS memory floor support

2005-11-07T15:53:36+00:00

This patch has the changes to support the memory floor fix done in Dell
BIOS.  The BIOS incase of packet update mechanism would not accept packet
placed in memory below a cretain address.  This address is by default 128K
but can change.  The driver now can accept the memory floor if the user
chooses to make it will try to allocate contiguous physical memory above
the memory floor by allocating a set of packets till a valid memory
allocation is made.  All the allocates then are freed.  This repeats for
everty packet.

This patch was created by Michael E Brown and has been tested on 2.6.14-rc5

Signed-of-by: Michael E Brown 
Signed-off-by: Abhay Salunke 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-drvmodel

2005-10-31T15:32:56+00:00

Manual #include fixups for clashes - there may be some unnecessary

[PATCH] Don't set dcdbas driver to default m

2005-10-31T01:37:28+00:00

It's nasty to set random drivers to default m because people who just press
enter on make oldconfig get these.  Remove the default m

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] CONFIG_IA32

2005-10-31T01:37:10+00:00

Add CONFIG_X86_32 for i386.  This allows selecting options that only apply
to 32-bit systems.

(X86 && !X86_64) becomes X86_32
(X86 ||  X86_64) becomes X86

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Sam Ravnborg 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Create platform_device.h to contain all the platform device details.

2005-10-29T18:07:23+00:00

Convert everyone who uses platform_bus_type to include
linux/platform_device.h.

Signed-off-by: Russell King 
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] dell_rbu: changes in packet update mechanism

2005-10-11T16:46:53+00:00

In the current dell_rbu code ver 2.0 the packet update mechanism makes the
user app dump every individual packet in to the driver.

This adds in efficiency as every packet update makes the
/sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading and data files to disappear and reappear
again.  Thus the user app needs to wait for the files to reappear to dump
another packet.  This slows down the packet update tremendously in case of
large number of packets.  I am submitting a new patch for dell_rbu which will
change the way we do packet updates;

In the new method the user app will create a new single file which has already
packetized the rbu image and all the packets are now staged in this file.

This driver also creates a new entry in
/sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/packet_size ; the user needs to echo the packet
size here before downloading the packet file.

The user should do the following:

 create one single file which has all the packets stacked together.
 echo the packet size in to /sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/packet_size.
 echo 1 > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading
 cat the packetfile > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/data
 echo 0 > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading

The driver takes the file which came through /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/data
and takes chunks of paket_size data from it and place in contiguous memory.

This makes packet update process very efficient and fast.  As all the packet
update happens in one single operation.  The user can still read back the
downloaded file from /sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/data.

Signed-off-by: Abhay Salunke 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds