Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751646AbcLEQHT (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Dec 2016 11:07:19 -0500 Received: from mail-wj0-f194.google.com ([209.85.210.194]:36346 "EHLO mail-wj0-f194.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751100AbcLEQHS (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Dec 2016 11:07:18 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/3] spi-nor: Add support for Intel SPI serial flash controller To: Mika Westerberg , Lee Jones References: <20161128120626.130693-1-mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> <20161205112727.GI1459@lahna.fi.intel.com> Cc: Cyrille Pitchen , Boris Brezillon , Richard Weinberger , Brian Norris , David Woodhouse , Peter Tyser , key.seong.lim@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org From: Marek Vasut Message-ID: <2dac1535-de7f-47c3-2747-ba8cac854811@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2016 14:33:12 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20161205112727.GI1459@lahna.fi.intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1433 Lines: 35 On 12/05/2016 12:27 PM, Mika Westerberg wrote: > On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 03:06:23PM +0300, Mika Westerberg wrote: >> This is 6th iteration of the series. You can find the previous versions >> archived on: >> >> v5: https://lwn.net/Articles/706363/ >> v4: https://lwn.net/Articles/703773/ >> v3: https://lwn.net/Articles/697231/ >> v2: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2016-June/068277.html >> v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/6/14/269 >> >> This patch series adds support for the Intel SPI serial flash controller >> found on many recent Intel CPUs including Baytrail and Braswell. This >> driver makes it possible to access the BIOS and other platform data which >> is stored on the SPI serial flash. It is also possible to upgrade the BIOS >> using this driver if it has not been protected by special hardware bits. >> >> The patch [1/3] includes documentation how to upgrade BIOS on MinnowBoard >> MAX. >> >> Since poking the SPI serial flash can brick the machine, this driver can >> only be enabled when CONFIG_EXPERT=y and even then it will remain read-only >> unless instructed othwerwise by module parameter. > > Hi Lee, > > I think we have enough acks from the MTD maintainers. I wonder if you > could merge this series via your MFD tree? > Ideally you'd merge 1/3 via MTD and 2,3/3 via MFD, but I'm not sure if that is possible and if that is a sensible thing to do. -- Best regards, Marek Vasut