Re: [PATCH 8/8] staging/mei: Updates to staging/Kconfig ane staging/Makefile and a new Makefile and Kconfig

From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Wed Apr 27 2011 - 20:06:24 EST


On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:27:37 +0300, Oren Weil said:
> Changes of Kconfig and Makefile in drivers/staging
> for adding the Intel MEI Driver to the Linux kernel.
> New Makefile and Kconfig building for MEI Driver.

> +++ b/drivers/staging/mei/Kconfig
> @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
> +config INTEL_MEI
> + tristate "Intel Management Engine Interface (Intel MEI)"
> + depends on X86 && EXPERIMENTAL
> + help
> + The Intel Management Engine (Intel ME) provides Manageability,
> + Security and Media services for system containing Intel chipsets.
> + if selected /dev/mei misc device will be created.
> +
> + For more information see
> + <http://software.intel.com/en-us/manageability/>

Can this be expanded a bit to give a better hint *which* Intel chipsets support
this? I just spent an honest 10 minutes looking around that website, and am no
clearer on whether the 82801I in my laptop supports this. Having a line like
"server chipsets XY948 and later and ICH10 and later" or similar would be a big
help to all those who hit this when it goes into the tree.

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