Re: [PATCH 1/8] SFI: Simple Firmware Interface - new Linuxsub-system

[Ingo Molnar]

* Len Brown <lenb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> CONFIG_SFI=y enables the kernel to boot and run optimally
> on platforms that support the Simple Firmware Interface.
> 
> Thanks to Jacob Pan for prototyping the initial Linux SFI support,
> and to Feng Tang for Linux bring-up and debug in emulation
> and on hardware.
> 
> See http://simplefirmware.org for more information on SFI.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt |    5 +++++
>  MAINTAINERS                         |   12 ++++++++++++
>  arch/x86/Kconfig                    |    2 ++
>  drivers/sfi/Kconfig                 |   16 ++++++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/sfi/Kconfig

Looks useful but this series needs review and acked-by from the x86 
maintainers, obviously. It touches a lot of x86 details.

	Ingo
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