Re: [PATCH] Restricted Access Region Register driver for Intel MID devices
From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Thu Jul 09 2009 - 10:44:27 EST
On Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:00:12 PDT, Mark Allyn said:
> This is the device driver for the Restricted Access Region registers on the
> Intel MID device.
>
> Restricted Access Regions are areas of memory that are not accessable to the
> i86 processor.
This text should appear in the Kconfig entry down below.
'i86' - typo, or a new device that just looks like a typo?
> +++ b/drivers/rar_register/Kconfig
> @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
> +#
> +# Serial device configuration
> +#
> +
> +menu "RAR Register Driver"
> +#
> +# The new 8250/16550 serial drivers
> +config RAR_REGISTER
> + tristate "Restricted Access Region Register Driver"
> + depends on MRST
Presumably, a yet-to-appear-in-my-inbox (but possibly in-flight) patch
will define this...
> + default y
> + ---help---
> + This driver allows other kernel drivers access to the
> + contents of the restricted access region control
> + registers.
As noted above, this should mention what chipset(s) these control registers
are found on.
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