On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 3:45 AM, Hans de Goede <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > On 19-06-17 20:13, Laura Abbott wrote: > >> 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?). >> > > AFAIK having this builtin is fine, for 4.13 some patches of mine will land > which will make the Crystal Cove PMIC MFD driver Kconfig option (which is > a boolean) do a select CONFIG_I2C_DESIGNWARE_PLATFORM, forcing it to be > builtin too, so by landing this config change for 4.12 we are doing > something > which will happen for 4.13 anyways. > > > Rawhide seems a good place to get it tested anyway. You are welcome to commit this, or I can do it if you like. Thanks, Justin _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
