[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] probe_superio: rewrite, add ITE support, sophisticated dumping
Uwe Hermann
uwe at hermann-uwe.de
Mon Aug 27 10:05:11 CEST 2007
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 09:30:15AM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> >> This is a really nice patch, on the long run we can make probe_superio
> >> (though I would rename it to 'superio-detect' personally) a
> >> general-purpose tool for detecting and investigating Super I/Os.
> >>
> >
> > Can you commit? I'll send a followup patch to fix the issues you
> > mentioned. My harddisk is flaky and I'd like to make sure no code I work
> > on gets lost.
> >
> >
> Committed revision 2749. Please send updates ;-)
> > Besides that, the renaming should be done eventually.
> > * superio_detect?
> > * superio_dump?
> > * superio_analyze?
> >
> Sounds good.
I'd prefer superio-detect, I don't like executable names with
underscores...
> > And then we want to have it in v3 via svn:externals.
> >
> Sounds good, too.
Not sure; do we want _all_ utilities replicated in all versions of
LinuxBIOS? I'd say we move all common utilities into util/
(will send a proposal later), and only replicate very few, often-needed
utilities in the respective v2/v3 trees? Comments?
Uwe.
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