On Mon, 29 Aug 2016, Mika Westerberg wrote: > On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 10:10:41AM +0300, Mika Westerberg wrote: > > Hi, > > > > This is third version of the series. Previous versions can be found: > > > > v2: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2016-June/068277.html > > v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/6/14/269 > > > > This series adds support for the Intel SPI serial flash controller found on > > many recent Intel CPUs including Baytrail and Braswell. This driver makes > > it possible to access the BIOS and other platform data which is stored on > > the SPI serial flash. It is also possible to upgrade the BIOS using this > > driver if it has not been protected by special hardware bits. > > > > The patch [1/3] includes documentation how to upgrade BIOS on MinnowBoard > > MAX. > > > > Since poking the SPI serial flash can brick the machine, this driver can > > only be enabled when CONFIG_EXPERT=y and even then it will remain read-only > > unless instructed othwerwise by module parameter. > > > > Lee can you ACK/NACK the MFD parts so that we can merge the whole series > > through the MTD tree?
Why does it need to go into the MTD tree? What are the *build* dependencies? > Hi, > > Any comments on this series? It missed v4.8 already so it would be nice > to get it merged for v4.9. > > Thanks. -- Lee Jones Linaro STMicroelectronics Landing Team Lead Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog
