Re: [PATCH 2/6] x86/microcode: Merge early loader

2015-11-09 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 06.11.2015 um 20:31 schrieb Borislav Petkov: > On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 02:22:42PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: >> So this broke dracut. Dracut will look at the config file for the >> INTEL or AMD early config options being set. > > Nothing outside the kernel should depend on Kconfig symbols. >

Re: [PATCH 2/6] x86/microcode: Merge early loader

2015-11-09 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 06.11.2015 um 20:31 schrieb Borislav Petkov: > On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 02:22:42PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: >> So this broke dracut. Dracut will look at the config file for the >> INTEL or AMD early config options being set. > > Nothing outside the kernel should depend on Kconfig symbols. >

Re: Failover root devices

2015-09-17 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 17.09.2015 20:17, Richard Weinberger wrote: > Am 17.09.2015 um 20:05 schrieb Drew DeVault: >>> Better send a patch to dracut folks. :-) >>> Major distros use it and if the feature is nice other initramfs >>> implementations will adopt it too. >> >> dracut is the common one sure, but I'm still

Re: Failover root devices

2015-09-17 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 17.09.2015 20:17, Richard Weinberger wrote: > Am 17.09.2015 um 20:05 schrieb Drew DeVault: >>> Better send a patch to dracut folks. :-) >>> Major distros use it and if the feature is nice other initramfs >>> implementations will adopt it too. >> >> dracut is the common one sure, but I'm still

Re: [GIT PULL] kdbus for 4.1-rc1

2015-04-29 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 29.04.2015 17:17, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote: > On 2015-04-29 11:07, Harald Hoyer wrote: >> Most of the stuff does not work without udev and something like systemd. >> > That's funny, apparently the initramfs images I've been using for multiple > months now on server system

Re: [GIT PULL] kdbus for 4.1-rc1

2015-04-29 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 29.04.2015 16:46, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote: > On 2015-04-29 10:11, Harald Hoyer wrote: >> On 29.04.2015 16:04, Richard Weinberger wrote: >>> Am 29.04.2015 um 16:01 schrieb Harald Hoyer: >>>> On 29.04.2015 15:46, Richard Weinberger wrote: >>>>>

Re: [GIT PULL] kdbus for 4.1-rc1

2015-04-29 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 29.04.2015 16:18, Richard Weinberger wrote: > Am 29.04.2015 um 16:11 schrieb Harald Hoyer: >>>> We don't handcraft the initramfs script for every our customers, therefore >>>> we >>>> have to generically support hotplug, persistent device names, p

Re: [GIT PULL] kdbus for 4.1-rc1

2015-04-29 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 29.04.2015 16:04, Richard Weinberger wrote: > Am 29.04.2015 um 16:01 schrieb Harald Hoyer: >> On 29.04.2015 15:46, Richard Weinberger wrote: >>> Am 29.04.2015 um 15:38 schrieb Harald Hoyer: >>>> On 29.04.2015 15:33, Richard Weinberger wrote: >>>>>

Re: [GIT PULL] kdbus for 4.1-rc1

2015-04-29 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 29.04.2015 15:46, Richard Weinberger wrote: > Am 29.04.2015 um 15:38 schrieb Harald Hoyer: >> On 29.04.2015 15:33, Richard Weinberger wrote: >>> It depends how you define "beginning". To me an initramfs is a *very* >>> minimal >>> tool t

Re: [GIT PULL] kdbus for 4.1-rc1

2015-04-29 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 29.04.2015 15:33, Richard Weinberger wrote: > It depends how you define "beginning". To me an initramfs is a *very* minimal > tool to prepare the rootfs and nothing more (no udev, no systemd, no > "mini distro"). > If the initramfs fails to do its job it can print to the console like > the

Re: [GIT PULL] kdbus for 4.1-rc1

2015-04-29 Thread Harald Hoyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 29.04.2015 01:12, John Stoffel wrote: > LDAP is pretty damn generic, in that you can put pretty large objects into > it, and pretty large OUs, etc. So why would it be a candidate for going > into the kernel? And why is kdbus so important in the

Re: [GIT PULL] kdbus for 4.1-rc1

2015-04-29 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 29.04.2015 01:12, John Stoffel wrote: >> "Havoc" == Havoc Pennington writes: > > Havoc> On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote: >>> I find dbus to be extremely hard to debug when my desktop starts doing >>> things I don't want it to do. The fact that it might be flinging

Re: [GIT PULL] kdbus for 4.1-rc1

2015-04-29 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 29.04.2015 01:12, John Stoffel wrote: Havoc == Havoc Pennington h...@pobox.com writes: Havoc On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Theodore Ts'o ty...@mit.edu wrote: I find dbus to be extremely hard to debug when my desktop starts doing things I don't want it to do. The fact that it might be

Re: [GIT PULL] kdbus for 4.1-rc1

2015-04-29 Thread Harald Hoyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 29.04.2015 01:12, John Stoffel wrote: LDAP is pretty damn generic, in that you can put pretty large objects into it, and pretty large OUs, etc. So why would it be a candidate for going into the kernel? And why is kdbus so important in the

Re: [GIT PULL] kdbus for 4.1-rc1

2015-04-29 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 29.04.2015 15:33, Richard Weinberger wrote: It depends how you define beginning. To me an initramfs is a *very* minimal tool to prepare the rootfs and nothing more (no udev, no systemd, no mini distro). If the initramfs fails to do its job it can print to the console like the kernel does

Re: [GIT PULL] kdbus for 4.1-rc1

2015-04-29 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 29.04.2015 15:46, Richard Weinberger wrote: Am 29.04.2015 um 15:38 schrieb Harald Hoyer: On 29.04.2015 15:33, Richard Weinberger wrote: It depends how you define beginning. To me an initramfs is a *very* minimal tool to prepare the rootfs and nothing more (no udev, no systemd, no mini

Re: [GIT PULL] kdbus for 4.1-rc1

2015-04-29 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 29.04.2015 16:04, Richard Weinberger wrote: Am 29.04.2015 um 16:01 schrieb Harald Hoyer: On 29.04.2015 15:46, Richard Weinberger wrote: Am 29.04.2015 um 15:38 schrieb Harald Hoyer: On 29.04.2015 15:33, Richard Weinberger wrote: It depends how you define beginning. To me an initramfs

Re: [GIT PULL] kdbus for 4.1-rc1

2015-04-29 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 29.04.2015 16:18, Richard Weinberger wrote: Am 29.04.2015 um 16:11 schrieb Harald Hoyer: We don't handcraft the initramfs script for every our customers, therefore we have to generically support hotplug, persistent device names, persistent interface names, network connectivity

Re: [GIT PULL] kdbus for 4.1-rc1

2015-04-29 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 29.04.2015 17:17, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote: On 2015-04-29 11:07, Harald Hoyer wrote: Most of the stuff does not work without udev and something like systemd. That's funny, apparently the initramfs images I've been using for multiple months now on server systems at work which don't have

Re: [GIT PULL] kdbus for 4.1-rc1

2015-04-29 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 29.04.2015 16:46, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote: On 2015-04-29 10:11, Harald Hoyer wrote: On 29.04.2015 16:04, Richard Weinberger wrote: Am 29.04.2015 um 16:01 schrieb Harald Hoyer: On 29.04.2015 15:46, Richard Weinberger wrote: Am 29.04.2015 um 15:38 schrieb Harald Hoyer: On 29.04.2015 15:33

Re: [GIT PULL] kdbus for 4.1-rc1

2015-04-16 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 16.04.2015 um 14:15 schrieb Olaf Hering: > On Thu, Apr 16, Tom Gundersen wrote: > >> to a shutdown PID 1 process and finally a transition back to >> the initial ramdisk so that we can unmount the root file system even. > > Is that wishful thinking or actually implemented somewhere? This is

Re: [GIT PULL] kdbus for 4.1-rc1

2015-04-16 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 16.04.2015 um 14:15 schrieb Olaf Hering: On Thu, Apr 16, Tom Gundersen wrote: to a shutdown PID 1 process and finally a transition back to the initial ramdisk so that we can unmount the root file system even. Is that wishful thinking or actually implemented somewhere? This is done on

Re: kdbus: add code for buses, domains and endpoints

2014-11-21 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 21.11.2014 06:02, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > From: Daniel Mack > … > +/** > + * kdbus_bus_new() - create a kdbus_cmd_make from user-supplied data > + * @domain: The domain to work on > + * @make:Information as passed in by userspace > + * @uid: The uid of the

Re: kdbus: add header file

2014-11-21 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 21.11.2014 06:02, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > From: Daniel Mack > … > + > +/** > + * enum kdbus_make_flags - Flags for KDBUS_CMD_{BUS,EP,NS}_MAKE > + * @KDBUS_MAKE_ACCESS_GROUP: Make the device node group-accessible > + * @KDBUS_MAKE_ACCESS_WORLD: Make the device node world-accessible > + */

Re: kdbus: add documentation

2014-11-21 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 21.11.2014 06:02, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > From: Daniel Mack > … > +5.4 Creating buses and endpoints > + > + > +KDBUS_CMD_BUS_MAKE, and KDBUS_CMD_ENDPOINT_MAKE take a > +struct kdbus_cmd_make argument. > + > +struct kdbus_cmd_make { > + __u64 size; > +

Re: kdbus: add code for buses, domains and endpoints

2014-11-21 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 21.11.2014 06:02, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > From: Daniel Mack > > Add the logic to handle the following entities: > > Domain: > A domain is an unamed object containing a number of buses. A > domain is automatically created when an instance of kdbusfs > is mounted, and destroyed when

Re: kdbus: add code for buses, domains and endpoints

2014-11-21 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 21.11.2014 06:02, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: From: Daniel Mack dan...@zonque.org Add the logic to handle the following entities: Domain: A domain is an unamed object containing a number of buses. A domain is automatically created when an instance of kdbusfs is mounted, and

Re: kdbus: add documentation

2014-11-21 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 21.11.2014 06:02, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: From: Daniel Mack dan...@zonque.org … +5.4 Creating buses and endpoints + + +KDBUS_CMD_BUS_MAKE, and KDBUS_CMD_ENDPOINT_MAKE take a +struct kdbus_cmd_make argument. + +struct kdbus_cmd_make { + __u64 size;

Re: kdbus: add header file

2014-11-21 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 21.11.2014 06:02, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: From: Daniel Mack dan...@zonque.org … + +/** + * enum kdbus_make_flags - Flags for KDBUS_CMD_{BUS,EP,NS}_MAKE + * @KDBUS_MAKE_ACCESS_GROUP: Make the device node group-accessible + * @KDBUS_MAKE_ACCESS_WORLD: Make the device node

Re: kdbus: add code for buses, domains and endpoints

2014-11-21 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 21.11.2014 06:02, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: From: Daniel Mack dan...@zonque.org … +/** + * kdbus_bus_new() - create a kdbus_cmd_make from user-supplied data + * @domain: The domain to work on + * @make:Information as passed in by userspace + * @uid: The

Re: [PATCH V2] efi_high_alloc: use EFI_ALLOCATE_MAX_ADDRESS

2014-08-25 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 25.08.2014 15:07, Matt Fleming wrote: > On Mon, 25 Aug, at 01:55:32PM, har...@redhat.com wrote: >> From: Harald Hoyer >> >> On my Lenovo T420s with 4GB memory, efi_high_alloc() was checking the >> following memory regions: >> >> 0x0010 - 0

Re: [PATCH] efi_high_alloc: use EFI_ALLOCATE_MAX_ADDRESS

2014-08-25 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 25.08.2014 12:34, Matt Fleming wrote: > (Adding linux-efi to Cc) > > On Fri, 22 Aug, at 03:48:23PM, har...@redhat.com wrote: >> From: Harald Hoyer >> >> On my Lenovo T420s with 4GB memory, efi_high_alloc() was checking the >> following memory

Re: [PATCH] efi_high_alloc: use EFI_ALLOCATE_MAX_ADDRESS

2014-08-25 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 25.08.2014 12:34, Matt Fleming wrote: (Adding linux-efi to Cc) On Fri, 22 Aug, at 03:48:23PM, har...@redhat.com wrote: From: Harald Hoyer har...@redhat.com On my Lenovo T420s with 4GB memory, efi_high_alloc() was checking the following memory regions: 0x0010

Re: [PATCH V2] efi_high_alloc: use EFI_ALLOCATE_MAX_ADDRESS

2014-08-25 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 25.08.2014 15:07, Matt Fleming wrote: On Mon, 25 Aug, at 01:55:32PM, har...@redhat.com wrote: From: Harald Hoyer har...@redhat.com On my Lenovo T420s with 4GB memory, efi_high_alloc() was checking the following memory regions: 0x0010 - 0x2000 0x2020

Re: Loading initrd above 4G causes freeze on boot

2014-08-22 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 09.08.2014 16:23, Mantas Mikulėnas wrote: > As of commit 4bf7111f5016 ("x86/efi: Support initrd loaded above 4G"), > the kernel freezes at the earliest possible moment when trying to boot > via UEFI on my Asus laptop. (It still boots via BIOS.) > > If I revert that commit on current master

Re: Loading initrd above 4G causes freeze on boot

2014-08-22 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 09.08.2014 16:23, Mantas Mikulėnas wrote: As of commit 4bf7111f5016 (x86/efi: Support initrd loaded above 4G), the kernel freezes at the earliest possible moment when trying to boot via UEFI on my Asus laptop. (It still boots via BIOS.) If I revert that commit on current master

Re: [rfc/rft] Fujitsu B-Series Lifebook PS/2 TouchScreen driver

2005-02-14 Thread Harald Hoyer
Vojtech Pavlik wrote: Hi! I've reimplemented the Lifebook touchscreen driver using libps2 and input, to make it short and fitting into the kernel drivers. Please comment on code and test for functionality! PS.: The driver should register two input devices. It doesn't yet, since that isn't very

Re: [rfc/rft] Fujitsu B-Series Lifebook PS/2 TouchScreen driver

2005-02-14 Thread Harald Hoyer
Vojtech Pavlik wrote: Hi! I've reimplemented the Lifebook touchscreen driver using libps2 and input, to make it short and fitting into the kernel drivers. Please comment on code and test for functionality! PS.: The driver should register two input devices. It doesn't yet, since that isn't very