On 06/16/2017 09:13 AM, Hans de Goede wrote: > Hi All, > > For the last couple of months I've been working on improving Linux > support for Intel Bay and Cherry Trail devices as a spare-time project. > > A lot of my changes for this have landed in the 4.12 kernel, see: > http://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/ > > The proposed config changes enable various drivers to make these > improvements available for Fedora users. > > Most of these changes just enable modules, but there is one change > which also impacts non Bay and Cherry Trail x86_64 users, the proposed > changes also change the I2C_DESIGNWARE controller options from module > to built-in. This is necessary because Bay and Cherry Trail devices use > an i2c attached PMIC which provides an ACPI OpRegion and this OpRegion > must be available before any devices with _PS0 or _PS3 methods which > use this OpRegion get their drivers bound to them. > > I'm not expecting any side-effects from this change, but I wanted > to point this out just in case. >
I thought there had previously been discussion about why we can't have it built in but I have been unable to produce any evidence that such a conversation ever existed. I might be confusing it with another subsystem (GPIO?). > Unless there are objections against these changes I plan to push them > to the master branch around the end of next week. > I have no objection. > I also plan to add some small isolated code-fixes which missed 4.12, and > have been queued up for 4.13. > That sounds great, Thanks! > Regards, > > Hans > _______________________________________________ > kernel mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
