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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/IPMI.txt | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/abracon,abx80x.txt | 30 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kasan.txt | 8 |
3 files changed, 39 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/IPMI.txt b/Documentation/IPMI.txt index 653d5d739d7f..31d1d658827f 100644 --- a/Documentation/IPMI.txt +++ b/Documentation/IPMI.txt @@ -505,7 +505,10 @@ at module load time (for a module) with: The addresses are normal I2C addresses. The adapter is the string name of the adapter, as shown in /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-<n>/name. -It is *NOT* i2c-<n> itself. +It is *NOT* i2c-<n> itself. Also, the comparison is done ignoring +spaces, so if the name is "This is an I2C chip" you can say +adapter_name=ThisisanI2cchip. This is because it's hard to pass in +spaces in kernel parameters. The debug flags are bit flags for each BMC found, they are: IPMI messages: 1, driver state: 2, timing: 4, I2C probe: 8 diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/abracon,abx80x.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/abracon,abx80x.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..be789685a1c2 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/abracon,abx80x.txt @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +Abracon ABX80X I2C ultra low power RTC/Alarm chip + +The Abracon ABX80X family consist of the ab0801, ab0803, ab0804, ab0805, ab1801, +ab1803, ab1804 and ab1805. The ab0805 is the superset of ab080x and the ab1805 +is the superset of ab180x. + +Required properties: + + - "compatible": should one of: + "abracon,abx80x" + "abracon,ab0801" + "abracon,ab0803" + "abracon,ab0804" + "abracon,ab0805" + "abracon,ab1801" + "abracon,ab1803" + "abracon,ab1804" + "abracon,ab1805" + Using "abracon,abx80x" will enable chip autodetection. + - "reg": I2C bus address of the device + +Optional properties: + +The abx804 and abx805 have a trickle charger that is able to charge the +connected battery or supercap. Both the following properties have to be defined +and valid to enable charging: + + - "abracon,tc-diode": should be "standard" (0.6V) or "schottky" (0.3V) + - "abracon,tc-resistor": should be <0>, <3>, <6> or <11>. 0 disables the output + resistor, the other values are in ohm. diff --git a/Documentation/kasan.txt b/Documentation/kasan.txt index 092fc10961fe..4692241789b1 100644 --- a/Documentation/kasan.txt +++ b/Documentation/kasan.txt @@ -9,7 +9,9 @@ a fast and comprehensive solution for finding use-after-free and out-of-bounds bugs. KASan uses compile-time instrumentation for checking every memory access, -therefore you will need a certain version of GCC > 4.9.2 +therefore you will need a gcc version of 4.9.2 or later. KASan could detect out +of bounds accesses to stack or global variables, but only if gcc 5.0 or later was +used to built the kernel. Currently KASan is supported only for x86_64 architecture and requires that the kernel be built with the SLUB allocator. @@ -23,8 +25,8 @@ To enable KASAN configure kernel with: and choose between CONFIG_KASAN_OUTLINE and CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE. Outline/inline is compiler instrumentation types. The former produces smaller binary the -latter is 1.1 - 2 times faster. Inline instrumentation requires GCC 5.0 or -latter. +latter is 1.1 - 2 times faster. Inline instrumentation requires a gcc version +of 5.0 or later. Currently KASAN works only with the SLUB memory allocator. For better bug detection and nicer report, enable CONFIG_STACKTRACE and put |