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| author | Christian Krafft <parabelboi@bopserverein.de> | 2007-02-14 13:09:45 (GMT) |
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| committer | Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> | 2007-02-16 03:00:19 (GMT) |
| commit | 0e8266437c62f4848676ea6e87a1ff10367502a9 (patch) | |
| tree | 57f3b86ffb2c205f513896bbf52f836c7d0a0302 /arch/powerpc/Kconfig | |
| parent | fde5efd0e50e026f3f69629fc5790a4f0533dcaa (diff) | |
| download | linux-0e8266437c62f4848676ea6e87a1ff10367502a9.tar.xz | |
[POWERPC] Add PMI driver for cell blade
This adds driver code for the PMI device found in future IBM products.
PMI stands for "Platform Management Interrupt" and is a way to
communicate with the BMC (Baseboard Management Controller).
It provides bidirectional communication with a low latency.
Signed-off-by: Christian Krafft <krafft@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Heiko J Schick <schickhj@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig index 340d9be..6dfbd52 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig +++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig @@ -620,6 +620,15 @@ config RTAS_FLASH tristate "Firmware flash interface" depends on PPC64 && RTAS_PROC +config PPC_PMI + tristate "Support for PMI" + depends PPC_IBM_CELL_BLADE + help + PMI (Platform Management Interrupt) is a way to + communicate with the BMC (Baseboard Mangement Controller). + It is used in some IBM Cell blades. + default m + config MMIO_NVRAM bool default n |