Re: amilo-rfkill: unsupported platform

From: Luis Henriques
Date: Mon Apr 16 2012 - 15:36:05 EST


On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 02:46:01PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-04-16 at 14:12 +0100, Luis Henriques wrote:
> > Hi Ben,
> >
> > You have recently submitted a new rfkill driver for the Amilo A1655 and
> > M7440 models. We have been using the fsam7400 driver[1] for the Amilo
> > M7440 and it would probably make sense to merge it into the amilo-rfkill.
> >
> > However, the fsam7400 driver directly invokes BIOS code in order to turn
> > on/off the radio, instead of the methods used by the A1655 and M7440
> > driver.
>
> Consistency, it's a wonderful thing.

Definitely it is, but a very rare thing.

> > This means the memory pages with the BIOS code would need to be
> > set as executable after the ioremap (which is probably a bad idea).
> >
> > Are there any plans of merging this driver into the amilo-rfkill driver?
>
> I have no plans for this, but feel free to try it.

Ok, thanks for the update.

Cheers,
--
Luis
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