[PATCH 00/14] Pramfs: Persistent and protected ram filesystem

2009-06-13 Thread Marco
This is a second attempt at mainlining Pramfs. The first attempt was back in early 2004 by MontaVista. Since then the kernel code has almost been completely rewritten. So my first item on the list was porting the code on a recent kernel version. After that I added the XIP support. Now some FAQs:

[PATCH 02/14] Pramfs: File operations for directories

2009-06-13 Thread Marco
From: Marco Stornelli marco.storne...@gmail.com File operations for directories. Signed-off-by: Marco Stornelli marco.storne...@gmail.com --- diff -uprN linux-2.6.30-orig/fs/pramfs/dir.c linux-2.6.30/fs/pramfs/dir.c --- linux-2.6.30-orig/fs/pramfs/dir.c 1970-01-01 01:00:00.0 +0100 +++

[PATCH 04/14] Pramfs: Mounting as root filesystem

2009-06-13 Thread Marco
From: Marco Stornelli marco.storne...@gmail.com Pramfs can be used even as root filesystem. Signed-off-by: Marco Stornelli marco.storne...@gmail.com --- diff -uprN linux-2.6.30-orig/init/do_mounts.c linux-2.6.30/init/do_mounts.c --- linux-2.6.30-orig/init/do_mounts.c 2009-06-10

[PATCH 05/14] Pramfs: File operations for files

2009-06-13 Thread Marco
From: Marco Stornelli marco.storne...@gmail.com File operations for files. Signed-off-by: Marco Stornelli marco.storne...@gmail.com --- diff -uprN linux-2.6.30-orig/fs/pramfs/file.c linux-2.6.30/fs/pramfs/file.c --- linux-2.6.30-orig/fs/pramfs/file.c 1970-01-01 01:00:00.0 +0100 +++

[PATCH 07/14] Pramfs: Inode operations

2009-06-13 Thread Marco
From: Marco Stornelli marco.storne...@gmail.com Inode operations. Signed-off-by: Marco Stornelli marco.storne...@gmail.com --- diff -uprN linux-2.6.30-orig/fs/pramfs/inode.c linux-2.6.30/fs/pramfs/inode.c --- linux-2.6.30-orig/fs/pramfs/inode.c 1970-01-01 01:00:00.0 +0100 +++

[PATCH 06/14] Pramfs: Include files

2009-06-13 Thread Marco
From: Marco Stornelli marco.storne...@gmail.com Include files. Signed-off-by: Marco Stornelli marco.storne...@gmail.com --- diff -uprN linux-2.6.30-orig/fs/pramfs/pram_fs.h linux-2.6.30/fs/pramfs/pram_fs.h --- linux-2.6.30-orig/fs/pramfs/pram_fs.h 1970-01-01 01:00:00.0 +0100 +++

[PATCH 08/14] Pramfs: Makefile and Kconfig

2009-06-13 Thread Marco
From: Marco Stornelli marco.storne...@gmail.com Makefile and Kconfig. Signed-off-by: Marco Stornelli marco.storne...@gmail.com --- diff -uprN linux-2.6.30-orig/fs/Kconfig linux-2.6.30/fs/Kconfig --- linux-2.6.30-orig/fs/Kconfig2009-06-10 05:05:27.0 +0200 +++

[PATCH 11/14] Pramfs: Symbolic link operations

2009-06-13 Thread Marco
From: Marco Stornelli marco.storne...@gmail.com Symbolic link operations. Signed-off-by: Marco Stornelli marco.storne...@gmail.com --- diff -uprN linux-2.6.30-orig/fs/pramfs/symlink.c linux-2.6.30/fs/pramfs/symlink.c --- linux-2.6.30-orig/fs/pramfs/symlink.c 1970-01-01 01:00:00.0

[PATCH 12/14] Pramfs: test module

2009-06-13 Thread Marco
From: Marco Stornelli marco.storne...@gmail.com Test module. Signed-off-by: Marco Stornelli marco.storne...@gmail.com --- diff -uprN linux-2.6.30-orig/fs/pramfs/pramfs_test.c linux-2.6.30/fs/pramfs/pramfs_test.c --- linux-2.6.30-orig/fs/pramfs/pramfs_test.c 1970-01-01 01:00:00.0

[PATCH 09/14] Pramfs: Inode operations for directories

2009-06-13 Thread Marco
From: Marco Stornelli marco.storne...@gmail.com Inode operations for directories. Signed-off-by: Marco Stornelli marco.storne...@gmail.com --- diff -uprN linux-2.6.30-orig/fs/pramfs/namei.c linux-2.6.30/fs/pramfs/namei.c --- linux-2.6.30-orig/fs/pramfs/namei.c 1970-01-01 01:00:00.0

Re: [PATCH 00/14] Pramfs: Persistent and protected ram filesystem

2009-06-13 Thread Daniel Walker
On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 15:20 +0200, Marco wrote: Are there any pending patents on this code? NO, there aren't patents pending on this code. MontaVista had a pending patent application but now it has abandoned this way. Daniel Walker can confirm that. Confirmed , there are no patents on this

Re: [PATCH 06/14] Pramfs: Include files

2009-06-13 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 03:21:48PM +0200, Marco wrote: From: Marco Stornelli marco.storne...@gmail.com Include files. Signed-off-by: Marco Stornelli marco.storne...@gmail.com --- diff -uprN linux-2.6.30-orig/fs/pramfs/pram_fs.h linux-2.6.30/fs/pramfs/pram_fs.h ---

Re: [PATCH 1/2] MMC Agressive clocking framework v2

2009-06-13 Thread Pierre Ossman
On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 14:45:09 +0200 Linus Walleij linus.ml.wall...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/6/2 Linus Walleij linus.ml.wall...@gmail.com: This patch modified the MMC core code to optionally call the set_ios() operation on the driver with the clock frequency set to 0 to gate the hardware

Re: Kernel crashing and log buffers...

2009-06-13 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Russell King, In message 20090613102642.gb7...@flint.arm.linux.org.uk you wrote: The other way I've seen people read out crash messages is using a debugger to dump the kernel's log buffer directly. That seems to work as well as any other method, and has the advantage that it doesn't

Re: Representing Embedded Architectures at the Kernel Summit

2009-06-13 Thread Grant Likely
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Kumar Galaga...@kernel.crashing.org wrote: On Jun 2, 2009, at 5:21 PM, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote: I'd like to propose AMP and kernel relocate as more and SoC will came with multiple core with or without the same arch I think AMP or at least the