Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Tabi Timur-B04825 <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 6/7] [v2] tty/powerpc: introduce the ePAPR embedded hypervisor byte channel driver | | Date | Sun, 3 Jul 2011 01:43:52 +0000 |
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On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com> wrote: > The ePAPR embedded hypervisor specification provides an API for "byte > channels", which are serial-like virtual devices for sending and receiving > streams of bytes. This driver provides Linux kernel support for byte > channels via three distinct interfaces: > > 1) An early-console (udbg) driver. This provides early console output > through a byte channel. The byte channel handle must be specified in a > Kconfig option. > > 2) A normal console driver. Output is sent to the byte channel designated > for stdout in the device tree. The console driver is for handling kernel > printk calls. > > 3) A tty driver, which is used to handle user-space input and output. The > byte channel used for the console is designated as the default tty. > > Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Greg, would you please pick up this patch for 3.1? Patches 1-5 are already queued through the PowerPC tree.
Thank you.
The patch is available here if you need to download it: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/96443/
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