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2005-10-11[PATCH] dell_rbu: changes in packet update mechanismAbhay Salunke
In the current dell_rbu code ver 2.0 the packet update mechanism makes the user app dump every individual packet in to the driver. This adds in efficiency as every packet update makes the /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading and data files to disappear and reappear again. Thus the user app needs to wait for the files to reappear to dump another packet. This slows down the packet update tremendously in case of large number of packets. I am submitting a new patch for dell_rbu which will change the way we do packet updates; In the new method the user app will create a new single file which has already packetized the rbu image and all the packets are now staged in this file. This driver also creates a new entry in /sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/packet_size ; the user needs to echo the packet size here before downloading the packet file. The user should do the following: create one single file which has all the packets stacked together. echo the packet size in to /sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/packet_size. echo 1 > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading cat the packetfile > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/data echo 0 > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading The driver takes the file which came through /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/data and takes chunks of paket_size data from it and place in contiguous memory. This makes packet update process very efficient and fast. As all the packet update happens in one single operation. The user can still read back the downloaded file from /sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/data. Signed-off-by: Abhay Salunke <abhay_salunke@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-17[PATCH] dell_rbu tidyAndrew Morton
Whitespace standardisation. Cc: Abhay Salunke <Abhay_Salunke@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-17[PATCH] dell_rbu: enhancements and fixesAbhay Salunke
BUG fixes: The driver used to allocate memory with spinlock held which has been fixed in this patch. The driver was printing the entire buffer when it received a invalid entry in image_type. The fix is to only print a warning message and not the buffer. Usability enhancements: It is possible that due to user error the /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu entries might be missing, this can happen if the user does the following echo 1 > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading echo 0 > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading This will make the entries in /sys/class/firmware/ to disappear and the only way get them back was bby unloading and loading the driver. This patch makes the user recreate these entries by echoing init in to image_type. This patch has been tested with Libsmbios and Dell OpenManage. Signed-off-by: Abhay Salunke <Abhay_Salunke@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] dcdbas: add Dell Systems Management Base Driver with sysfs supportDoug Warzecha
This patch adds the Dell Systems Management Base Driver with sysfs support. This driver has been tested with Dell OpenManage. Signed-off-by: Doug Warzecha <Douglas_Warzecha@dell.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] dell_rbu: new Dell BIOS update driverAbhay Salunke
Remote BIOS Update driver for updating BIOS images on Dell servers and desktops. See dell_rbu.txt for details. Signed-off-by: Abhay Salunke <Abhay_Salunke@dell.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28[PATCH] PCDP: if PCDP contains parity information, use itBjorn Helgaas
If the PCDP supplies parity, use it (only none/even/odd supported), and don't append parity/stop bit arguments unless baud is present. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-13[IA64] Make PCDP work again.David Mosberger-Tang
Mark's patch added "attribute((packed))" for pcdp_uart, without accounting for the fact that the structure definition _relied_ on implicit padding by 6 bytes. Fix is to make the padding explicit. Signed-off-by: David Mosberger-Tang <David.Mosberger@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-06-28[IA64-SGI] pcdp: add PCDP pci interface supportMark Maule
Resend 2 with changes per Bjorn Helgaas comments. Changes from original: + Change globals to vga_console_iobase/vga_console_membase and make them unconditional. + Address style-related comments. Patch to extend the PCDP vga setup code to support PCI io/mem translations for the legacy vga ioport and ram spaces on architectures (e.g. altix) which need them. Summary of the changes: drivers/firmware/pcdp.c drivers/firmware/pcdp.h ----------------------- + add declaration for the spec-defined PCI interface struct (pcdp_if_pci) as well as support macros. + extend setup_vga_console() to know about pcdp_if_pci and add a couple of globals to hold the io and mem translation offsets if present. arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c ------------------------ + tweek early_console_setup() to allow multiple early console setup routines to be called. include/asm-ia64/vga.h ---------------------- + make VGA_MAP_MEM vga_console_membase aware Signed-off-by: Mark Maule <maule@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-06-25[PATCH] kfree cleanups for drivers/firmware/Jesper Juhl
Here's a patch with kfree() cleanups for drivers/firmware/efivars.c Patch removes redundant NULL checks before kfree and also makes a small whitespace cleanup - moves two statements on same line to separate lines. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk> Acked-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23[PATCH] PCDP: handle tables that don't supply baud rateBjorn Helgaas
The HCDP specs (i.e., PCDP revision < 3) allow zero as a default value for baud rate and data bits. So if firmware doesn't supply them, let early_serial_console_init() probe for them rather than telling it the baud rate is zero. Also, update the URL for the PCDP spec. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-20[PATCH] sysfs: (rest) if show/store is missing return -EIODmitry Torokhov
sysfs: fix the rest of the kernel so if an attribute doesn't implement show or store method read/write will return -EIO instead of 0 or -EINVAL or -EPERM. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-05-31[PATCH] pcdp.c build fixPeter Chubb
In file included from drivers/firmware/pcdp.c:18: drivers/firmware/pcdp.h:48: error: field `addr' has incomplete type drivers/firmware/pcdp.c: In function `setup_serial_console': drivers/firmware/pcdp.c:27: error: `ACPI_ADR_SPACE_SYSTEM_MEMORY' undeclared (first use in this function) Cc: <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!