Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751307Ab2E1Xi6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 May 2012 19:38:58 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:46898 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750913Ab2E1Xi5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 May 2012 19:38:57 -0400 Message-ID: <4FC40C74.8050003@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 16:38:28 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120430 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alessandro Rubini CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Giancarlo Asnaghi , Alan Cox , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Samuel Ortiz , x86@kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/platform: sta2x11: add platform code References: <20120527205020.GA3050@mail.gnudd.com> In-Reply-To: <20120527205020.GA3050@mail.gnudd.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1268 Lines: 35 On 05/27/2012 01:50 PM, Alessandro Rubini wrote: > This adds platform code for the STA2X11 (aka ConneXt) I/O Hub, > including support for the Intel NorthVille evaluation board and the > ST-Eval PCIe carrier. > > The boards differ for the amount of peripherals actually wired out, > GPIO configuration and some accessory pins. At this point, platform > data for peripherals other tha GPIO is not instantiated because the > drivers are not yet upstream. > > The array of supported boards is built using a local ELF section to > avoid ifdef; the section is folded in the .data section by a local > linker script. > > Signed-off-by: Alessandro Rubini > Acked-by: Giancarlo Asnaghi > Cc: Alan Cox Nacked-in-the-extreme-by: H. Peter Anvin There is absolutely NO WAY this kind of ARM-like sh*t is going into the x86 kernel. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- 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/