[PATCH v3 0/3] ARM: aspeed: add support for the BT IPMI interface

[Cédric Le Goater]

On 09/20/2016 04:58 PM, Corey Minyard wrote:
> On 09/20/2016 02:01 AM, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> This serie adds support for the iBT interface on Aspeed SOCs (AST2400
>> and AST2500). The BT (Block Transfer) interface is used to perform
>> in-band IPMI communication between a host and its BMC. This driver
>> implements the BMC side.
> 
> This looks good.  I pulled these into my tree, it's ok for 4.9 or
> whatever is next, since it's a new driver.
> 
> Do patches 2 and 3 go through Joel?

Yes. He said he would.

Thanks,

C. 

> 
> -corey
> 
>> Changes since v2:
>>
>>   - limit to one opener
>>   - protect write/read operations with a mutex.
>>
>> Changes since v1:
>>
>>   - the driver is now called 'bt-bmc' and the device node '/dev/ipmi-bt-host'
>>       - the code is now under drivers/char/ipmi/. This required a change of
>>     the top Makefile in drivers/ to compile the bt-bmc driver with the
>>     ipmi handlers not being selected. That might be an issue.
>>       - changed the read/write operations to use a temporary buffer and get
>>     rid of the {get,put}_user calls
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> C.
>>
>> Alistair Popple (1):
>>    ipmi: add an Aspeed BT IPMI BMC driver
>>
>> Cédric Le Goater (2):
>>    ARM: aspeed: Add defconfigs for CONFIG_ASPEED_BT_IPMI_BMC
>>    ARM: dts: aspeed: Enable BT IPMI BMC device
>>
>>   .../bindings/char/ipmi/aspeed,ast2400-bt-bmc.txt   |  23 +
>>   arch/arm/boot/dts/aspeed-g4.dtsi                   |   6 +
>>   arch/arm/boot/dts/aspeed-g5.dtsi                   |   6 +
>>   arch/arm/configs/aspeed_g4_defconfig               |   1 +
>>   arch/arm/configs/aspeed_g5_defconfig               |   1 +
>>   drivers/Makefile                                   |   2 +-
>>   drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig                          |   7 +
>>   drivers/char/ipmi/Makefile                         |   1 +
>>   drivers/char/ipmi/bt-bmc.c                         | 510 +++++++++++++++++++++
>>   include/uapi/linux/Kbuild                          |   1 +
>>   include/uapi/linux/bt-bmc.h                        |  18 +
>>   11 files changed, 575 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>   create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/char/ipmi/aspeed,ast2400-bt-bmc.txt
>>   create mode 100644 drivers/char/ipmi/bt-bmc.c
>>   create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/bt-bmc.h
>>
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