[U-Boot] x86: SPI-NOR (MTD): ACPI missing?

[Bin Meng]

+ML since others may be interested in it

Hi Stefan,

On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 3:30 PM, Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de> wrote:
> Hi Bin,
>
> I do have a quick questions for you:
>
> I'm currently trying to integrate the MTD SPI NOR support for
> BayTrail. For this I've integrated this patch series on top
> of v4.8:
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/15/55

Can you point me the v3 diffs? (like a patchwork link). From
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2016-June/068280.html,
v2 patch does not use ACPI.

>
> First tests show that the driver probe / init is not called
> at all. Is my assumption correct that some ACPI code might be
> missing in U-Boot so that the driver will get instantiated in
> Linux? If yes, could you give me a quick hint, what might be
> missing? Perhaps point to some other driver example that also
> needs such ACPI code in the bootloader that you already
> integrated?
>

It may be caused by a kernel config that does not include this driver.

Regards,
Bin