Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261276AbVEKWFP (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 May 2005 18:05:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261282AbVEKWFP (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 May 2005 18:05:15 -0400 Received: from ausc60pc101.us.dell.com ([143.166.85.206]:61481 "EHLO ausc60pc101.us.dell.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261276AbVEKWFI (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 May 2005 18:05:08 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: i="3.93,96,1115010000"; d="scan'208"; a="260442659:sNHT23598992" Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 17:05:07 -0500 From: Matt Domsch To: Abhay Salunke Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.12-rc3] dell_rbu: New Dell BIOS update driver Message-ID: <20050511220507.GA11723@lists.us.dell.com> References: <20050510220520.GA30741@littleblue.us.dell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050510220520.GA30741@littleblue.us.dell.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1473 Lines: 36 On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 05:05:20PM -0500, Abhay Salunke wrote: > The dell_rbu driver is required for updating BIOS on DELL servers and client > systems. The driver lets a user application download the BIOS image in to > contiguous physical memory pages; the driver exposes the memory via sysfs > filesystem. The update mechanism basically has two approcahes; one by > allocating contiguous physical memory and the second approach is by allocating > small chunks of contiguous physical memory. [snip] > diff -uprN linux-2.6.11.8.ORIG/drivers/firmware/Kconfig linux-2.6.11.8/drivers/firmware/Kconfig > --- linux-2.6.11.8.ORIG/drivers/firmware/Kconfig 2005-05-09 15:13:06.257801832 -0500 > +++ linux-2.6.11.8/drivers/firmware/Kconfig 2005-05-09 16:30:47.746147888 -0500 > @@ -58,4 +58,16 @@ config EFI_PCDP > > See > > +config DELL_RBU > + bool "BIOS update support for DELL systems via sysfs" Trivial: needs to be tristate, not bool, to make a module. Change help text then accordingly. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Domsch Software Architect Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/