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Documentation/00-INDEX

@@ -225,8 +225,6 @@ kprobes.txt
 	- documents the kernel probes debugging feature.
 kref.txt
 	- docs on adding reference counters (krefs) to kernel objects.
-laptop-mode.txt
-	- how to conserve battery power using laptop-mode.
 laptops/
 	- directory with laptop related info and laptop driver documentation.
 ldm.txt
@@ -301,12 +299,8 @@ pcmcia/
 	- info on the Linux PCMCIA driver.
 pi-futex.txt
 	- documentation on lightweight PI-futexes.
-pm.txt
-	- info on Linux power management support.
 pnp.txt
 	- Linux Plug and Play documentation.
-power_supply_class.txt
-	- Tells userspace about battery, UPS, AC or DC power supply properties
 power/
 	- directory with info on Linux PCI power management.
 powerpc/

Documentation/acpi/dsdt-override.txt

@@ -1,15 +1,7 @@
-Linux supports two methods of overriding the BIOS DSDT:
+Linux supports a method of overriding the BIOS DSDT:
 
 CONFIG_ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT builds the image into the kernel.
 
-CONFIG_ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT_INITRD adds the image to the initrd.
-
-When to use these methods is described in detail on the
+When to use this method is described in detail on the
 Linux/ACPI home page:
 http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/acpi/overridingDSDT.php
-
-Note that if both options are used, the DSDT supplied
-by the INITRD method takes precedence.
-
-Documentation/initramfs-add-dsdt.sh is provided for convenience
-for use with the CONFIG_ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT_INITRD method.

Documentation/fb/cmap_xfbdev.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+Understanding fbdev's cmap
+--------------------------
+
+These notes explain how X's dix layer uses fbdev's cmap structures.
+
+*. example of relevant structures in fbdev as used for a 3-bit grayscale cmap
+struct fb_var_screeninfo {
+        .bits_per_pixel = 8,
+        .grayscale      = 1,
+        .red =          { 4, 3, 0 },
+        .green =        { 0, 0, 0 },
+        .blue =         { 0, 0, 0 },
+}
+struct fb_fix_screeninfo {
+        .visual =       FB_VISUAL_STATIC_PSEUDOCOLOR,
+}
+for (i = 0; i < 8; i++)
+	info->cmap.red[i] = (((2*i)+1)*(0xFFFF))/16;
+memcpy(info->cmap.green, info->cmap.red, sizeof(u16)*8);
+memcpy(info->cmap.blue, info->cmap.red, sizeof(u16)*8);
+
+*. X11 apps do something like the following when trying to use grayscale.
+for (i=0; i < 8; i++) {
+	char colorspec[64];
+	memset(colorspec,0,64);
+	sprintf(colorspec, "rgb:%x/%x/%x", i*36,i*36,i*36);
+	if (!XParseColor(outputDisplay, testColormap, colorspec, &wantedColor))
+		printf("Can't get color %s\n",colorspec);
+	XAllocColor(outputDisplay, testColormap, &wantedColor);
+	grays[i] = wantedColor;
+}
+There's also named equivalents like gray1..x provided you have an rgb.txt.
+
+Somewhere in X's callchain, this results in a call to X code that handles the
+colormap. For example, Xfbdev hits the following:
+
+xc-011010/programs/Xserver/dix/colormap.c:
+
+FindBestPixel(pentFirst, size, prgb, channel)
+
+dr = (long) pent->co.local.red - prgb->red;
+dg = (long) pent->co.local.green - prgb->green;
+db = (long) pent->co.local.blue - prgb->blue;
+sq = dr * dr;
+UnsignedToBigNum (sq, &sum);
+BigNumAdd (&sum, &temp, &sum);
+
+co.local.red are entries that were brought in through FBIOGETCMAP which come
+directly from the info->cmap.red that was listed above. The prgb is the rgb
+that the app wants to match to. The above code is doing what looks like a least
+squares matching function. That's why the cmap entries can't be set to the left
+hand side boundaries of a color range.
+

Documentation/fb/metronomefb.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+			Metronomefb
+			-----------
+Maintained by Jaya Kumar <jayakumar.lkml.gmail.com>
+Last revised: Nov 20, 2007
+
+Metronomefb is a driver for the Metronome display controller. The controller
+is from E-Ink Corporation. It is intended to be used to drive the E-Ink
+Vizplex display media. E-Ink hosts some details of this controller and the
+display media here http://www.e-ink.com/products/matrix/metronome.html .
+
+Metronome is interfaced to the host CPU through the AMLCD interface. The
+host CPU generates the control information and the image in a framebuffer
+which is then delivered to the AMLCD interface by a host specific method.
+Currently, that's implemented for the PXA's LCDC controller. The display and
+error status are each pulled through individual GPIOs.
+
+Metronomefb was written for the PXA255/gumstix/lyre combination and
+therefore currently has board set specific code in it. If other boards based on
+other architectures are available, then the host specific code can be separated
+and abstracted out.
+
+Metronomefb requires waveform information which is delivered via the AMLCD
+interface to the metronome controller. The waveform information is expected to
+be delivered from userspace via the firmware class interface. The waveform file
+can be compressed as long as your udev or hotplug script is aware of the need
+to uncompress it before delivering it. metronomefb will ask for waveform.wbf
+which would typically go into /lib/firmware/waveform.wbf depending on your
+udev/hotplug setup. I have only tested with a single waveform file which was
+originally labeled 23P01201_60_WT0107_MTC. I do not know what it stands for.
+Caution should be exercised when manipulating the waveform as there may be
+a possibility that it could have some permanent effects on the display media.
+I neither have access to nor know exactly what the waveform does in terms of
+the physical media.
+
+Metronomefb uses the deferred IO interface so that it can provide a memory
+mappable frame buffer. It has been tested with tinyx (Xfbdev). It is known
+to work at this time with xeyes, xclock, xloadimage, xpdf.
+

Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt

@@ -172,16 +172,6 @@ Who:	Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
 
 ---------------------------
 
-What:	ide-tape driver
-When:	July 2008
-Files:	drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
-Why:	This driver might not have any users anymore and maintaining it for no
-	reason is an effort no one wants to make.
-Who:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>, Borislav Petkov
-	<petkovbb@googlemail.com>
-
----------------------------
-
 What: libata spindown skipping and warning
 When: Dec 2008
 Why:  Some halt(8) implementations synchronize caches for and spin

Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt

@@ -1506,13 +1506,13 @@ laptop_mode
 -----------
 
 laptop_mode is a knob that controls "laptop mode". All the things that are
-controlled by this knob are discussed in Documentation/laptop-mode.txt.
+controlled by this knob are discussed in Documentation/laptops/laptop-mode.txt.
 
 block_dump
 ----------
 
 block_dump enables block I/O debugging when set to a nonzero value. More
-information on block I/O debugging is in Documentation/laptop-mode.txt.
+information on block I/O debugging is in Documentation/laptops/laptop-mode.txt.
 
 swap_token_timeout
 ------------------

Documentation/hw_random.txt

@@ -1,33 +1,26 @@
-	Hardware driver for Intel/AMD/VIA Random Number Generators (RNG)
-	Copyright 2000,2001 Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
-	Copyright 2000,2001 Philipp Rumpf <prumpf@mandrakesoft.com>
-
 Introduction:
 
-	The hw_random device driver is software that makes use of a
+	The hw_random framework is software that makes use of a
 	special hardware feature on your CPU or motherboard,
-	a Random Number Generator (RNG).
+	a Random Number Generator (RNG).  The software has two parts:
+	a core providing the /dev/hw_random character device and its
+	sysfs support, plus a hardware-specific driver that plugs
+	into that core.
 
-	In order to make effective use of this device driver, you
+	To make the most effective use of these mechanisms, you
 	should download the support software as well.  Download the
 	latest version of the "rng-tools" package from the
 	hw_random driver's official Web site:
 
 		http://sourceforge.net/projects/gkernel/
 
-About the Intel RNG hardware, from the firmware hub datasheet:
-
-	The Firmware Hub integrates a Random Number Generator (RNG)
-	using thermal noise generated from inherently random quantum
-	mechanical properties of silicon. When not generating new random
-	bits the RNG circuitry will enter a low power state. Intel will
-	provide a binary software driver to give third party software
-	access to our RNG for use as a security feature. At this time,
-	the RNG is only to be used with a system in an OS-present state.
+	Those tools use /dev/hw_random to fill the kernel entropy pool,
+	which is used internally and exported by the /dev/urandom and
+	/dev/random special files.
 
 Theory of operation:
 
-	Character driver.  Using the standard open()
+	CHARACTER DEVICE.  Using the standard open()
 	and read() system calls, you can read random data from
 	the hardware RNG device.  This data is NOT CHECKED by any
 	fitness tests, and could potentially be bogus (if the
@@ -36,9 +29,37 @@ Theory of operation:
 	a security-conscious person would run fitness tests on the
 	data before assuming it is truly random.
 
-	/dev/hwrandom is char device major 10, minor 183.
+	The rng-tools package uses such tests in "rngd", and lets you
+	run them by hand with a "rngtest" utility.
+
+	/dev/hw_random is char device major 10, minor 183.
+
+	CLASS DEVICE.  There is a /sys/class/misc/hw_random node with
+	two unique attributes, "rng_available" and "rng_current".  The
+	"rng_available" attribute lists the hardware-specific drivers
+	available, while "rng_current" lists the one which is currently
+	connected to /dev/hw_random.  If your system has more than one
+	RNG available, you may change the one used by writing a name from
+	the list in "rng_available" into "rng_current".
+
+==========================================================================
+
+	Hardware driver for Intel/AMD/VIA Random Number Generators (RNG)
+	Copyright 2000,2001 Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
+	Copyright 2000,2001 Philipp Rumpf <prumpf@mandrakesoft.com>
+
+
+About the Intel RNG hardware, from the firmware hub datasheet:
+
+	The Firmware Hub integrates a Random Number Generator (RNG)
+	using thermal noise generated from inherently random quantum
+	mechanical properties of silicon. When not generating new random
+	bits the RNG circuitry will enter a low power state. Intel will
+	provide a binary software driver to give third party software
+	access to our RNG for use as a security feature. At this time,
+	the RNG is only to be used with a system in an OS-present state.
 
-Driver notes:
+Intel RNG Driver notes:
 
 	* FIXME: support poll(2)
 

Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt

@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ Every PCI card emits a PCI IRQ, which can be INTA, INTB, INTC or INTD:
 
 These INTA-D PCI IRQs are always 'local to the card', their real meaning
 depends on which slot they are in. If you look at the daisy chaining diagram,
-a card in slot4, issuing INTA IRQ, it will end up as a signal on PIRQ2 of
+a card in slot4, issuing INTA IRQ, it will end up as a signal on PIRQ4 of
 the PCI chipset. Most cards issue INTA, this creates optimal distribution
 between the PIRQ lines. (distributing IRQ sources properly is not a
 necessity, PCI IRQs can be shared at will, but it's a good for performance

Documentation/ide/ide.txt

@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ Drives are normally found by auto-probing and/or examining the CMOS/BIOS data.
 For really weird situations, the apparent (fdisk) geometry can also be specified
 on the kernel "command line" using LILO.  The format of such lines is:
 
-	hdx=cyls,heads,sects,wpcom,irq
+	hdx=cyls,heads,sects
 or	hdx=cdrom
 
 where hdx can be any of hda through hdh, Three values are required
@@ -214,9 +214,9 @@ driver using the "options=" keyword to insmod, while replacing any ',' with
 Summary of ide driver parameters for kernel command line
 --------------------------------------------------------
 
- "hdx="  is recognized for all "x" from "a" to "h", such as "hdc".
+ "hdx="  is recognized for all "x" from "a" to "u", such as "hdc".
 
- "idex=" is recognized for all "x" from "0" to "3", such as "ide1".
+ "idex=" is recognized for all "x" from "0" to "9", such as "ide1".
 
  "hdx=noprobe"		: drive may be present, but do not probe for it
 
@@ -228,13 +228,6 @@ Summary of ide driver parameters for kernel command line
 
  "hdx=cyl,head,sect"	: disk drive is present, with specified geometry
 
- "hdx=remap"		: remap access of sector 0 to sector 1 (for EZDrive)
-
- "hdx=remap63"		: remap the drive: add 63 to all sector numbers
-			  (for DM OnTrack)
-
- "idex=noautotune"	: driver will NOT attempt to tune interface speed
-
  "hdx=autotune"		: driver will attempt to tune interface speed
 			  to the fastest PIO mode supported,
 			  if possible for this drive only.
@@ -244,10 +237,6 @@ Summary of ide driver parameters for kernel command line
 
  "hdx=nodma"		: disallow DMA
 
- "hdx=scsi"		: the return of the ide-scsi flag, this is useful for
- 			  allowing ide-floppy, ide-tape, and ide-cdrom|writers
- 			  to use ide-scsi emulation on a device specific option.
-
  "idebus=xx"		: inform IDE driver of VESA/PCI bus speed in MHz,
 			  where "xx" is between 20 and 66 inclusive,
 			  used when tuning chipset PIO modes.
@@ -282,10 +271,6 @@ Summary of ide driver parameters for kernel command line
 
  "ide=reverse"		: formerly called to pci sub-system, but now local.
 
-The following are valid ONLY on ide0, which usually corresponds
-to the first ATA interface found on the particular host, and the defaults for
-the base,ctl ports must not be altered.
-
  "ide=doubler"		: probe/support IDE doublers on Amiga
 
 There may be more options than shown -- use the source, Luke!

Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 			strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
 				strictly ACPI specification compliant.
 
-			See also Documentation/pm.txt, pci=noacpi
+			See also Documentation/power/pm.txt, pci=noacpi
 
 	acpi_apic_instance=	[ACPI, IOAPIC]
 			Format: <int>
@@ -177,9 +177,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 
 	acpi_no_auto_ssdt	[HW,ACPI] Disable automatic loading of SSDT
 
-	acpi_no_initrd_override	[KNL,ACPI]
-			Disable loading custom ACPI tables from the initramfs
-
 	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
 			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
 
@@ -1133,6 +1130,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
 			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
 			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
+			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
+			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
+			         or
+			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
 
 	meye.*=		[HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
 			See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt.

Documentation/laptops/00-INDEX

@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 	- This file
 acer-wmi.txt
 	- information on the Acer Laptop WMI Extras driver.
+laptop-mode.txt
+	- how to conserve battery power using laptop-mode.
 sony-laptop.txt
 	- Sony Notebook Control Driver (SNC) Readme.
 sonypi.txt