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@ 2011-01-25  0:24 Mike Waychison
  2011-01-25  0:24 ` [PATCH v1 1/6] Add oops notification chain Mike Waychison
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From: Mike Waychison @ 2011-01-25  0:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Greg KH, torvalds
  Cc: San Mehat, Aaron Durbin, Duncan Laurie, linux-kernel, Tim Hockin

This patchset applies to v2.6.38-rc2.

The following series implements support for interfaces exposed by
google's servers' firmware.

We'd like to have these small drivers included as they are required for
proper use of the kernel in our infrastructure.  They may not seem like
much, but a lot of our health automation as well as our human debugging
efforts are dependent on the functionality herein.

I'm pretty happy with the way this patchset looks and would like to ask
that they be merged at some point if there aren't any big objections.
Getting these in the public Linux tree would bring us closer to being
able to easily test kernels as they are released.

I wasn't certain who to send these patches to, please advise if I should
be CCing anyone else.

Thanks,

Patchset summary
================

[1] and [5] are the only ones that touch the 'core' kernel.


   - [1] adds a notifier_block that is called on Oops.

   - [2] introduces CONFIG_GOOGLE_FIRMWARE which all Google firmware
     drivers can depend upon.

   - [3] and [4] are drivers we use that are ready for inclusion.  [3]
     communicates with our EFI images via an SMI handshake.  [4] works
     with our older BIOSes to construct a log of reboot reasons.

   - [5] prepares for [6] by introducing prepend_to_dmesg() which
     allows drivers to prepend pre-kernel messages to the dmesg at
     bootup.

   - [6] uses the bits in [5].  It discovers the BIOSes memory log and
     prepends it to the dmesg during bootup.

Diffstat
========

 drivers/firmware/Kconfig             |   10 
 drivers/firmware/Makefile            |    2 
 drivers/firmware/google/Kconfig      |   39 +
 drivers/firmware/google/Makefile     |    4 
 drivers/firmware/google/bootlog.c    |  884 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/firmware/google/gsmi.c       |  931 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/firmware/google/memconsole.c |  136 +++++
 fs/compat_ioctl.c                    |    7 
 include/linux/gsmi.h                 |  120 ++++
 include/linux/kernel.h               |    3 
 include/linux/miscdevice.h           |    1 
 include/linux/notifier.h             |    3 
 include/linux/printk.h               |    5 
 kernel/panic.c                       |   15 
 kernel/printk.c                      |   55 ++
 15 files changed, 2214 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

ChangeLog:
==========
- v1
   - Initial public send-out.

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2011-01-25  0:24 [PATCH v1 0/6] google firmware support Mike Waychison
2011-01-25  0:24 ` [PATCH v1 1/6] Add oops notification chain Mike Waychison
2011-01-25  2:06   ` Greg KH
2011-01-25 20:01     ` Mike Waychison
2011-01-25 21:36       ` Jeff Garzik
2011-01-25 21:43         ` Aaron Durbin
2011-01-25 21:54           ` Jeff Garzik
2011-01-25 22:21             ` Aaron Durbin
2011-01-26  2:48               ` Greg KH
2011-01-26 21:50                 ` Mike Waychison
2011-01-25  0:24 ` [PATCH v1 2/6] Introduce CONFIG_GOOGLE_FIRMWARE Mike Waychison
2011-01-25  0:24 ` [PATCH v1 3/6] driver: Google EFI SMI Mike Waychison
2011-01-25  3:17   ` Greg KH
2011-01-25 23:12     ` Mike Waychison
2011-01-26  2:46       ` Greg KH
2011-01-26 23:58         ` Mike Waychison
2011-01-27  1:22           ` Mike Waychison
2011-01-27 23:41             ` Mike Waychison
2011-01-28  2:56               ` Greg KH
2011-02-20  4:44               ` Matt Domsch
2011-02-21 13:58                 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-01-27 10:43           ` Alan Cox
2011-01-27 19:22             ` Mike Waychison
2011-01-28  2:55               ` Greg KH
2011-01-28  2:59           ` Greg KH
2011-01-25  0:24 ` [PATCH v1 4/6] driver: Google Bootlog Mike Waychison
2011-01-25  0:49   ` Alan Cox
2011-01-25  1:38     ` Mike Waychison
2011-01-25  9:43       ` Alan Cox
2011-01-25  0:25 ` [PATCH v1 5/6] Allow prepending to the dmesg Mike Waychison
2011-01-25  1:01   ` Andrew Morton
2011-01-25  0:25 ` [PATCH v1 6/6] driver: Google Memory Console Mike Waychison
2011-01-25  2:00   ` Greg KH
2011-01-25  3:01 ` [PATCH v1 0/6] google firmware support Greg KH
2011-01-25 19:58   ` Mike Waychison
2011-01-26  2:47     ` Greg KH

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