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  5. Nov 09, 2015
    • James Hogan's avatar
      MAINTAINERS: Change Meta arch port status to Odd Fixes · f23d0e24
      James Hogan authored 
      

For a while now the Meta architecture port has been supported with only
odd fixes rather than any big new features, since it has now been
effectively supersceded by MIPS, and there is no prospect of any new
products being based on it. Change the maintenance status to Odd Fixes
in order to reflect reality.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org
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  7. Nov 07, 2015
  9. Nov 05, 2015
    • Rob Herring's avatar
      MAINTAINERS: update DT binding doc locations · 2d799dde
      Rob Herring authored 
      

After the recent moving of DT binding documents, some maintainers entries
are stale. Update them to the new locations.

In bindings/fb/, there were only 2 files and I'm assuming the FB
maintainers don't want to be copied on all of bindings/display/. So I've
dropped them.

Reported-by: default avatarThierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
Cc: Jianwei Wang <jianwei.wang.chn@gmail.com>
Cc: Alison Wang <alison.wang@freescale.com>
Cc: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Mark Yao <mark.yao@rock-chips.com>
Cc: Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@linaro.org>
Cc: Vincent Abriou <vincent.abriou@st.com>
Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
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  19. Oct 29, 2015
    • Matias Bjørling's avatar
      lightnvm: Support for Open-Channel SSDs · cd9e9808
      Matias Bjørling authored 
      

Open-channel SSDs are devices that share responsibilities with the host
in order to implement and maintain features that typical SSDs keep
strictly in firmware. These include (i) the Flash Translation Layer
(FTL), (ii) bad block management, and (iii) hardware units such as the
flash controller, the interface controller, and large amounts of flash
chips. In this way, Open-channels SSDs exposes direct access to their
physical flash storage, while keeping a subset of the internal features
of SSDs.

LightNVM is a specification that gives support to Open-channel SSDs
LightNVM allows the host to manage data placement, garbage collection,
and parallelism. Device specific responsibilities such as bad block
management, FTL extensions to support atomic IOs, or metadata
persistence are still handled by the device.

The implementation of LightNVM consists of two parts: core and
(multiple) targets. The core implements functionality shared across
targets. This is initialization, teardown and statistics. The targets
implement the interface that exposes physical flash to user-space
applications. Examples of such targets include key-value store,
object-store, as well as traditional block devices, which can be
application-specific.

Contributions in this patch from:

  Javier Gonzalez <jg@lightnvm.io>
  Dongsheng Yang <yangds.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
  Jesper Madsen <jmad@itu.dk>

Signed-off-by: default avatarMatias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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