Re: [PATCH v9 1/6] x86/platform/p2sb: New Primary to Sideband bridge support driver for Intel SOC's

From: Darren Hart
Date: Thu Nov 10 2016 - 21:45:59 EST


On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 05:55:20PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Nov 2016, Tan Jui Nee wrote:
> > There is already one and at least one more user coming which
> > require an access to Primary to Sideband bridge (P2SB) in order
> > to get IO or MMIO bar hidden by BIOS.
> > Create a driver to access P2SB for x86 devices.
> >
> > arch/x86/Kconfig | 4 ++
> > arch/x86/include/asm/p2sb.h | 27 +++++++++++
> > arch/x86/platform/intel/Makefile | 1 +
> > arch/x86/platform/intel/p2sb.c | 98 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> This really has nothing to do with architecture. It's a platform enablement
> driver and therefor should go into drivers/platform/x86
>
> Cc'ed Darren who is responsible for this.

Thanks Thomas,

Tan Jui, I'll be on a short medical leave through Nov 28. In the meantime, Andy
Shevchenko (on Cc) will be taking the lead on drivers/platform/x86 patches.

Andy, please work with Tan Jui to update this change to apply to our tree.

Thanks,

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Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center