libnvdimm, nfit: initial libnvdimm infrastructure and NFIT support
A struct nvdimm_bus is the anchor device for registering nvdimm resources and interfaces, for example, a character control device, nvdimm devices, and I/O region devices. The ACPI NFIT (NVDIMM Firmware Interface Table) is one possible platform description for such non-volatile memory resources in a system. The nfit.ko driver attaches to the "ACPI0012" device that indicates the presence of the NFIT and parses the table to register a struct nvdimm_bus instance. Cc: <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com> Cc: Robert Moore <robert.moore@intel.com> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Acked-by:Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Acked-by:
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by:
Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Tested-by:
Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com> Signed-off-by:
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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- drivers/Kconfig 2 additions, 0 deletionsdrivers/Kconfig
- drivers/Makefile 1 addition, 0 deletionsdrivers/Makefile
- drivers/acpi/Kconfig 14 additions, 0 deletionsdrivers/acpi/Kconfig
- drivers/acpi/Makefile 1 addition, 0 deletionsdrivers/acpi/Makefile
- drivers/acpi/nfit.c 481 additions, 0 deletionsdrivers/acpi/nfit.c
- drivers/acpi/nfit.h 90 additions, 0 deletionsdrivers/acpi/nfit.h
- drivers/nvdimm/Kconfig 15 additions, 0 deletionsdrivers/nvdimm/Kconfig
- drivers/nvdimm/Makefile 3 additions, 0 deletionsdrivers/nvdimm/Makefile
- drivers/nvdimm/core.c 69 additions, 0 deletionsdrivers/nvdimm/core.c
- drivers/nvdimm/nd-core.h 23 additions, 0 deletionsdrivers/nvdimm/nd-core.h
- include/linux/libnvdimm.h 34 additions, 0 deletionsinclude/linux/libnvdimm.h
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