Comment 5 for bug 1419151

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Benjamin Herrenschmidt (benh-kernel) wrote : Re: [Bug 1419151] Re: OpenPower needs backport of PowerNV OPAL i2c driver

On Fri, 2015-02-06 at 22:18 +0000, Chris J Arges wrote:
> For the backports, are any other features needed like:
> 608b286d1ddf38a7ceb624d2b689af095816d91c ?
>
> We can always merge these latter, but might make cherry-picking a bit
> easier if done now. : )

There's a number of things that would be handy to have for OpenPower
support and the above is one of them :) I can make you a list, we would
want the AST driver as well for BMC graphics but there are dependencies
I think on a bunch of other DRM changes so it might be easier if I
cooked you a backport myself.

I'll look into that early next week.

But don't hold the i2c stuff on that, there are people waiting on it
so we can tell OpenPower vendors that they can just use a standard
ubuntu image for manufacturing and use the i2c interface to program the
VPDs without having to build/install custom kernel packages.

Cheers,
Ben.