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Henk de Groot
68c0bdff7a Staging: wlags49_h2: add Agere driver for HERMES II and HERMES II.5 chipsets
WLAN driver for cards using the HERMES II and HERMES II.5 chipset

Based on Agere Systems Linux LKM Wireless Driver Source Code,
Version 7.22; complies with Open Source BSD License.

The software is a modified version of wl_lkm_722_abg.tar.gz from the
Agere Systems website, addapted for Ubuntu 9.04 and modified to
fit in the current Linux kernel (2.6.31).

Modified for kernel 2.6 by Henk de Groot <pe1dnn@amsat.org>
Based on 7.18 version by Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru> $Revision: 39 $

Signed-off-by: Henk de Groot <pe1dnn@amsat.org>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-12-11 12:23:10 -08:00
Nitin Gupta
306b0c957f Staging: virtual block device driver (ramzswap)
Creates RAM based block devices (/dev/ramzswapX) which can be
used (only) as swap disks. Pages swapped to these are compressed
and stored in memory itself.

The module is called ramzswap.ko. It depends on:
 - xvmalloc memory allocator (compiled with this driver)
 - lzo_compress.ko
 - lzo_decompress.ko

See ramzswap.txt for usage details.

Signed-off-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-12-11 12:23:04 -08:00
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
e20aea64e1 Staging: remove no longer needed rt3090 driver
rt2860 handles now all rt2860/rt3090 chipsets.

Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-12-11 12:21:46 -08:00
David S. Miller
3505d1a9fd Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/sfc/sfe4001.c
	drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cmd.c
	drivers/staging/Kconfig
	drivers/staging/Makefile
	drivers/staging/rtl8187se/Kconfig
	drivers/staging/rtl8192e/Kconfig
2009-11-18 22:19:03 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
9ab1b56aa0 Staging: remove stlc45xx driver
It's no longer needed as the p54spi driver is the same thing,
under a different name and in the correct portion of the kernel tree.


Cc: Javier Martinez Canillas <martinez.javier@gmail.com>
Cc: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-10-30 14:47:44 -07:00
John W. Linville
4b57835497 netwave: move driver to staging
Move the netwave driver to drivers/staging.  This is another pre-802.11
driver that has seen virtually no non-API-fixup activity in years, and
for which no active hardware is likely to still exist.  This driver
represents unnecessary ongoing maintenance for no clear benefit.

This patch brought to you by the "hacking" session at the 2009 Kernel
Summit in Tokyo, Japan...

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-30 16:50:34 -04:00
John W. Linville
0234f84ebb wavelan: move driver to staging
Move the wavelan driver to drivers/staging.  This is another pre-802.11
driver that has seen virtually no non-API-fixup activity in years, and
for which no active hardware is likely to still exist.  This driver
represents unnecessary ongoing maintenance for no clear benefit.

This patch brought to you by the "hacking" session at the 2009 Kernel
Summit in Tokyo, Japan...

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-30 16:50:34 -04:00
John W. Linville
e38879efd3 arlan: move driver to staging
Move the arlan driver to drivers/staging.  This is another pre-802.11
driver that has seen virtually no non-API-fixup activity in years, and
for which no active hardware is likely to still exist.  This driver
represents unnecessary ongoing maintenance for no clear benefit.

This patch brought to you by the "hacking" session at the 2009 Kernel
Summit in Tokyo, Japan...

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-30 16:50:33 -04:00
John W. Linville
955015bb0b strip: move driver to staging
Move the strip ("Starmode Radio IP") driver to drivers/staging.  For
several years this driver has only seen API "bombing-run" changes, and
few people ever had the hardware.  This driver represents unnecessary
ongoing maintenance for no clear benefit.

This patch brought to you by the "hacking" session at the 2009 Kernel
Summit in Tokyo, Japan...

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-30 16:50:33 -04:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
999b9da40e Staging: remove cowloop driver
The author has found a number of problems with the current version
of this driver in the current kernel, and is reworking it to get
things working again.  Because of that, it would be better to remove
the driver now and add it back in a future kernel release.

Cc: H.J. Thomassen <hjt@ATComputing.nl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-10-09 13:47:23 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
7d230df37a Staging: remove agnx driver
The agnx driver in the staging tree is broken, does not work, and
development is dead.  The developers have asked for it to be removed
so it now is.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-10-09 13:47:23 -07:00
David S. Miller
8b3f6af863 Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/
Conflicts:
	drivers/staging/Kconfig
	drivers/staging/Makefile
	drivers/staging/cpc-usb/TODO
	drivers/staging/cpc-usb/cpc-usb_drv.c
	drivers/staging/cpc-usb/cpc.h
	drivers/staging/cpc-usb/cpc_int.h
	drivers/staging/cpc-usb/cpcusb.h
2009-09-24 15:13:11 -07:00
Sebastian Haas
c1e815c03b cpc-usb: Removed driver from staging tree
This patch prepares replacing the staging driver cpc-usb with the new
developed ems_usb CAN driver.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Haas <haas@ems-wuensche.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-21 11:32:24 -07:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
df72f32ae2 cx25821: Add driver to the building system
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2009-09-18 23:47:39 -03:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
e9d599220b Staging: remove sxg driver
Unfortunatly, the upstream company has abandonded development of this
driver.  So it's best to just remove the driver from the tree.

Cc: Christopher Harrer <charrer@alacritech.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-15 12:02:35 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
0b33559a1a Staging: remove heci driver
Intel has officially abandoned this project and does not want to
maintian it or have it included in the main kernel tree, as no one
should use the code, it's not needed anymore.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-15 12:02:35 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
1c6592f3b7 Staging: remove at76_usb wireless driver.
There is already an in-kernel driver for this hardware (since 2.6.30),
at76c50x-usb, and it supports all of the same devices.  So this driver
can now be deleted.

Acked-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi> 
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-15 12:02:35 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
ffac040c05 Staging: rspiusb: remove the driver
No one cares, it's a custom userspace interface, and the code hasn't
built in a long time.  So remove it.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-15 12:02:35 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
a8fcffbde4 Staging: meilhaus: remove the drivers
The comedi drivers should be used instead, no need to have
these in here as well.

Cc: David Kiliani <mail@davidkiliani.de>
Cc: Meilhaus Support <support@meilhaus.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-15 12:02:35 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
06bf27ddaa Staging: remove me4000 driver.
The comedi drivers should be used instead, no need to have
this driver in the tree duplicating that one.

Cc: Wolfgang Beiter <w.beiter@aon.at>
Cc: Guenter Gebhardt <g.gebhardt@meilhaus.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-15 12:02:35 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
a3b2e09333 Staging: add cowloop to the build
Now that the code can build, let's add it to the build system.

Cc: "H.J. Thomassen" <hjt@ATComputing.nl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-15 12:02:33 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
ecdfa44610 Staging: add Realtek 8192 PCI wireless driver
This wireless driver should work for the Realtek 8192 PCI devices.

It comes directly from Realtek and has been tested to work on at least
one laptop in the wild.

Cc: Anthony Wong <awong1@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-15 12:02:30 -07:00
Jonathan Cameron
847ec80bba Staging: IIO: core support for device registration and management
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-15 12:02:24 -07:00
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
49debb5684 Staging: remove no longer needed rt3070 driver
rt2870 handles now all rt2870/rt3070 chipsets.

Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-15 12:02:23 -07:00
Alan Cox
542385ee6d Staging: sep: Move the RAR support into staging where it is supposed to be
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-15 12:02:11 -07:00
Mark Allyn
cd1bb431d8 Staging: sep: Upstream revision 3 of the security processor kernel driver
Upstream revision 3 of the security processor kernel driver;
now located in drivers/staging

This revision adds an initial TODO file

This driver no longer requires to have the firmware compiled in
it with the CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE configuration option.

Furthermore, we now have the right to distribute the firmware
binaries.

This is the Linux kernel driver for the Security Processor, which is
a hardware device the provides cryptographic, secure storage, and
key management services.

Please be aware that this patch does not contain any encryption
algorithm. It only transports data to and from user space
applications to the security processor.

Signed-off-by: Mark Allyn <mark.a.allyn@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-15 12:02:11 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
249c033c29 Staging: pata_rdc: remove the driver from the staging tree
Now that a "real" driver is in the libata tree for this hardware, we need
to remove the staging driver as it is no longer needed.

Cc: Kevin Huang  <Kevin.Huang@rdc.com.tw>
Cc: Tomy Wang <Tomy.Wang@rdc.com.tw>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-15 12:02:11 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
0841a555af Staging: remove epl driver
This is no longer maintained upstream, and no one cares about it at all,
so delete it.

The fact that it is duplicating an existing network driver also is a
good reason to remove it, it's causing nothing but trouble right now.

Cc: Daniel Krueger <daniel.krueger@systec-electronic.com>
Cc: Ronald Sieber <Ronald.Sieber@systec-electronic.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-15 12:02:11 -07:00
Martyn Welch
a17a75e266 Staging: VME Framework for the Linux Kernel
This framework aims to colelese, extend and improve the VME Linux
drivers found at vmelinux.org, universe2.sourceforge.net and
openfmi.net/frs/?group_id=144. The last 2 drivers appear to be forks of
the original code found at vmelinux.org though have extended the
codebase.

Signed-off-by: Martyn Welch <martyn.welch@gefanuc.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-15 12:02:09 -07:00
Pavel Machek
347a799cef Staging: Dream: separate Kconfig/Makefile into subdirectory
Separate Kconfig/Makefile glue from dream into subdirectory. I plan to
add few more drivers, and changing staging/Makefile each time sounds
like inviting conflicts.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-15 12:02:05 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
c4ca0e9e6d Staging: hv: add the Hyper-V virtual bus to the build
Add the Hyper-V virtual bus to the kernel build system.

Cc: Hank Janssen <hjanssen@microsoft.com>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-15 12:01:44 -07:00
Pavel Machek
578f2938a4 Staging: HTC Dream: Makefile glue
This provides Makefile/Kconfig glue for HTC Dream staging parts.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Brian Swetland <swetland@google.com>
Cc: Iliyan Malchev <ibm@android.com>
Cc: San Mehat <san@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-15 12:01:43 -07:00
Richard Ash
c4f3020fc4 Staging: add Support for Quatech ESU2-100 USB 2.0 8-port serial adaptor
The patch is of the "works as far as it goes" variety, in that the
module compiles and loads, the device nodes are registered and the unit
switched on, but nothing actually works. On the other hand, it doesn't
panic the kernel, as far as I know.

Signed-off-by: Richard Ash <richard@audacityteam.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-15 12:01:35 -07:00
Forest Bond
5d1fe0c98f Staging: vt6656: Integrate vt6656 into build system.
Integrate drivers/staging/vt6656 into build system.

Signed-off-by: Forest Bond <forest@alittletooquiet.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-15 12:01:32 -07:00
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
36c7928c3e Staging: add rt3090 wireless driver
This is the vendor driver for the Ralink RT3090 chipset.

It should be later cleaned and ported to use the existing rt2x00
infrastructure or just replaced by the proper version.

[ Unfortunately since it follows the same design/implementation like
  rt{286,287,307}0 drivers (already present in the staging tree)
  it is highly unlikely that it will see much love from the wireless
  development community.. ]

However since the development of the cleaner/proper version can take
significant time lets give distros (i.e. openSUSE seems to already
have the package with the original vendor driver) and users "something"
to use in the meantime.

I forward ported it to 2.6.31-rc1, ported to the Linux build system
and did some initial cleanups.  More fixes/cleanups to come later
(it seems that the driver can be made to share most of its code with
the other Ralink drivers already present in the staging tree).

Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-15 12:01:31 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
0bfc240575 staging: remove aten2011 driver
This driver is not needed, as the existing mos7840 driver works
properly for this device.

Thanks to Russell Lang for doing the work to figure this out.

Cc: Russell Lang <gsview@ghostgum.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-07-28 14:07:11 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
9a82e6df79 Staging: udlfb: add udlfb driver to build
This adds the udlfb driver to the build system

Cc: Roberto De Ioris <roberto@unbit.it>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-06-19 11:00:57 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
89a2c2085b Staging: pata_rdc: add driver to the build system
Cc: Kevin Huang  <Kevin.Huang@rdc.com.tw>
Cc: Tomy Wang <Tomy.Wang@rdc.com.tw>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-06-19 11:00:56 -07:00
Bill Pemberton
8ba911c793 Staging: serqt_usb2 add the driver to the build
Signed-off-by: Bill Pemberton <wfp5p@virginia.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-06-19 11:00:56 -07:00
Jerry Chuang
5f53d8ca3d Staging: add rtl8192SU wireless usb driver
Driver from Realtek for the Realtek RTL8192 USB wifi device

Based on the r8187 driver from Andrea Merello <andreamrl@tiscali.it> and
others.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-06-19 11:00:53 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
936b623053 Staging: cpc-usb: add driver to the build
This adds the cpc-usb driver to the kernel build

Cc: Sebastian Haas <haas@ems-wuensche.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-06-19 11:00:53 -07:00
Forest Bond
1d69a1c65b Staging: vt6655: Integrate drivers/staging/vt6655 into build system.
Integrate drivers/staging/vt6655 into build system.

Signed-off-by: Forest Bond <forest@alittletooquiet.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-06-19 11:00:51 -07:00
David Daney
80ff0fd3ab Staging: Add octeon-ethernet driver files.
The octeon-ethernet driver supports the sgmii, rgmii, spi, and xaui
ports present on the Cavium OCTEON family of SOCs.  These SOCs are
multi-core mips64 processors with existing support over in arch/mips.

The driver files can be categorized into three basic groups:

1) Register definitions, these are named cvmx-*-defs.h

2) Main driver code, these have names that don't start cvmx-.

3) Interface specific functions and other utility code, names starting
with cvmx-

Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2009-06-17 11:06:30 +01:00
Jerome Glisse
771fe6b912 drm/radeon: introduce kernel modesetting for radeon hardware
Add kernel modesetting support to radeon driver, use the ttm memory
manager to manage memory and DRM/GEM to provide userspace API.
In order to avoid backward compatibility issue and to allow clean
design and code the radeon kernel modesetting use different code path
than old radeon/drm driver.

When kernel modesetting is enabled the IOCTL of radeon/drm
driver are considered as invalid and an error message is printed
in the log and they return failure.

KMS enabled userspace will use new API to talk with the radeon/drm
driver. The new API provide functions to create/destroy/share/mmap
buffer object which are then managed by the kernel memory manager
(here TTM). In order to submit command to the GPU the userspace
provide a buffer holding the command stream, along this buffer
userspace have to provide a list of buffer object used by the
command stream. The kernel radeon driver will then place buffer
in GPU accessible memory and will update command stream to reflect
the position of the different buffers.

The kernel will also perform security check on command stream
provided by the user, we want to catch and forbid any illegal use
of the GPU such as DMA into random system memory or into memory
not owned by the process supplying the command stream. This part
of the code is still incomplete and this why we propose that patch
as a staging driver addition, future security might forbid current
experimental userspace to run.

This code support the following hardware : R1XX,R2XX,R3XX,R4XX,R5XX
(radeon up to X1950). Works is underway to provide support for R6XX,
R7XX and newer hardware (radeon from HD2XXX to HD4XXX).

Authors:
    Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
    Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
    Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
2009-06-15 12:01:53 +10:00
Linus Torvalds
3516c6a8dc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6: (714 commits)
  Staging: sxg: slicoss: Specify the license for Sahara SXG and Slicoss drivers
  Staging: serqt_usb: fix build due to proc tty changes
  Staging: serqt_usb: fix checkpatch errors
  Staging: serqt_usb: add TODO file
  Staging: serqt_usb: Lindent the code
  Staging: add USB serial Quatech driver
  staging: document that the wifi staging drivers a bit better
  Staging: echo cleanup
  Staging: BUG to BUG_ON changes
  Staging: remove some pointless conditionals before kfree_skb()
  Staging: line6: fix build error, select SND_RAWMIDI
  Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in variax.c
  Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in toneport.c
  Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in pcm.c
  Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in midibuf.c
  Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in midi.c
  Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in dumprequest.c
  Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in driver.c
  Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in audio.c
  Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in pod.c
  ...
2009-04-05 11:06:45 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
5ca0121ff2 Staging: add USB serial Quatech driver
Add support for all Quatech usb to serial devices.

Based on an original driver from Quatech.

Cleaned up and forward ported by me.

It's a mess, uses it's own tty layer interface, and the coding style is
horrible.

Cc: Tim Gobeli <tgobeli@quatech.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-03 14:54:27 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
4b5e781dc8 Staging: line6: add to the build
This adds the line6 driver to the build system.

Cc: Markus Grabner <grabner@icg.tugraz.at>
Cc: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-03 14:54:25 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
e642f09951 Staging: add rt3070 wireless driver
This is the Ralink RT3070 driver from the company that does horrible
things like reading a config file from /etc.  However, the driver that
is currently under development from the wireless development community
is not working at all yet, so distros and users are using this version
instead (quite common hardware on a lot of netbook machines).

So here is this driver, for now, until the wireless developers get a
"clean" version into the main tree, or until this version is cleaned up
sufficiently to move out of the staging tree.

Ported to the Linux build system, fixed lots of build issues, forward
ported to the current kernel version, and other minor cleanups were all
done by me.

Cc: Linux wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-03 14:54:24 -07:00
Marcin Obara
d52b3d9c72 Staging: add heci driver
The Intel Management Engine Interface (aka HECI: Host Embedded
Controller Interface ) enables communication between the host OS and
the Management Engine firmware. MEI is bi-directional, and either the
host or Intel AMT firmware can initiate transactions.

The core hardware architecture of Intel Active Management Technology
(Intel AMT) is resident in firmware. The micro-controller within the
chipset's graphics and memory controller (GMCH) hub houses the
Management Engine (ME) firmware, which implements various services
on behalf of management applications.

Some of the ME subsystems that can be access via MEI driver:

- Intel(R) Quiet System Technology (QST) is implemented as a firmware
subsystem  that  runs in the ME.  Programs that wish to expose the
health monitoring and fan speed control capabilities of Intel(R) QST
will need to use the MEI driver to communicate with the ME sub-system.
- ASF is the "Alert Standard Format" which is an DMTF manageability
standard. It is implemented in the PC's hardware and firmware, and is
managed from a remote console.

Most recent Intel desktop chipsets have one or more of the above ME
services. The MEI driver will make it possible to support the above
features on Linux and provides applications access to the ME and it's
features.

Signed-off-by: Anas Nashif <anas.nashif@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcin Obara <marcin.obara@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-03 14:54:24 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
00db8a8ecc Staging: p9auth: add to the kernel build
This adds the p9auth code to the kernel build

Cc: Ashwin Ganti <ashwin.ganti@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-03 14:54:23 -07:00