Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932331Ab1FVPXl (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2011 11:23:41 -0400 Received: from db3ehsobe002.messaging.microsoft.com ([213.199.154.140]:7349 "EHLO DB3EHSOBE002.bigfish.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932180Ab1FVPXj (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2011 11:23:39 -0400 X-SpamScore: -9 X-BigFish: VS-9(zz1432N98dKzz1202hzz8275bhz2dh2a8h668h839h61h) X-Spam-TCS-SCL: 0:0 X-Forefront-Antispam-Report: CIP:70.37.183.190;KIP:(null);UIP:(null);IPVD:NLI;H:mail.freescale.net;RD:none;EFVD:NLI Message-ID: <4E0208F4.4030800@freescale.com> Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 10:23:32 -0500 From: Timur Tabi Organization: Freescale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110429 Fedora/3.6.17-1.fc13 Firefox/3.6.17 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: , , , , , , , , Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] [v2] tty/powerpc: introduce the ePAPR embedded hypervisor byte channel driver References: <1305830092-20104-1-git-send-email-timur@freescale.com> In-Reply-To: <1305830092-20104-1-git-send-email-timur@freescale.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginatorOrg: freescale.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1346 Lines: 32 Timur Tabi wrote: > The ePAPR embedded hypervisor specification provides an API for "byte > channels", which are serial-like virtual devices for sending and receiving > streams of bytes. This driver provides Linux kernel support for byte > channels via three distinct interfaces: > > 1) An early-console (udbg) driver. This provides early console output > through a byte channel. The byte channel handle must be specified in a > Kconfig option. > > 2) A normal console driver. Output is sent to the byte channel designated > for stdout in the device tree. The console driver is for handling kernel > printk calls. > > 3) A tty driver, which is used to handle user-space input and output. The > byte channel used for the console is designated as the default tty. > > Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi I know you guys are busy, but can I get an ACK or two on this patch, if there are no issues with it? It's the only one of the seven that doesn't have one. I think v2 has addressed all of the concerns raised on version 1. -- Timur Tabi Linux kernel developer at Freescale -- 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/