On 22 November 2013 18:06, Yi Li yi.li@linaro.org wrote:
On Saturday, November 23, 2013 12:52 AM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
On 22 November 2013 17:43, Yi Li yi.li@linaro.org wrote:
This patch makes a couple of changes to the SMBIOS/DMI scanning code so it can be used on other archs (such as ARM and arm64): (a) wrap the calls to ioremap()/iounmap(), this allows the use of a flavor of ioremap() more suitable for random unaligned access; (b) allow the non-EFI fallback probe into hardcoded physical address 0xF0000 to be disabled.
Signed-off-by: Yi Li yi.li@linaro.org
This patch and the ones that change x86 and ia64 dmi.h *must* stay combined, otherwise you may break bisect for other people. (If you apply this patch, but not the other ones, you break the build on x86 and/or ia64 because dma_early_ioremap does not exist yet)
Yi: shall we make dmi_scan.c + dmi.h (x86/ia64) as one patch. if they will be accepted ,then create the patch for arm/arm64? only two patches are enough?
Well, it was already just one patch. Once we receive the ack from the x86 guys, I will share the updated version with you and you should be able to just load it into your git branch using 'git am'
I have already sent this patch to the list: I am hoping to get it acked by one of the x86 maintainers, so you will be able to send it to catalin and/or russell as part of this series and they can merge it through their respective trees.
Yi: just wait the answer by maintainers?
Well, I am open to suggestions (Grant?) on whom to poke from team-x86 and how to poke them, but for now, yeah, let's just wait a bit.