From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: swarren@wwwdotorg.org (Stephen Warren) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 21:24:20 +0100 Subject: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] ARM topic: Is DT on ARM the solution, or is there something better? In-Reply-To: <20131021170711.GA5256@netboy> References: <52644A9E.3060007@wwwdotorg.org> <20131020220839.GT2443@sirena.org.uk> <5264576F.6050307@wwwdotorg.org> <20131021091555.GB21518@ulmo.nvidia.com> <20131021170711.GA5256@netboy> Message-ID: <52658D74.3010504@wwwdotorg.org> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 10/21/2013 06:07 PM, Richard Cochran wrote: > On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 11:15:56AM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote: >> >> Right now, we're taking away much of that flexibility and I see progress >> on ARM actively hindered. > > Baloney. > > No one is taking away your flexibility or hindering progress. It is > really very simple. Just make an arm-dt-devel tree where you can both > change the bindings at will and recommend to people. Once bindings > have seen some real world testing and have had time to mature, then > request a merge into mainline. Thierry already has working patches for LCD support, and the "request [for] a merge into mainline" is just "send the patch to be applied to mainline", which he did, and was blocked on, because of the potential existance of CDF if the future. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Warren Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] ARM topic: Is DT on ARM the solution, or is there something better? Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 21:24:20 +0100 Message-ID: <52658D74.3010504@wwwdotorg.org> References: <52644A9E.3060007@wwwdotorg.org> <20131020220839.GT2443@sirena.org.uk> <5264576F.6050307@wwwdotorg.org> <20131021091555.GB21518@ulmo.nvidia.com> <20131021170711.GA5256@netboy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20131021170711.GA5256@netboy> Sender: devicetree-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Richard Cochran , Thierry Reding Cc: Nicolas Pitre , "devicetree-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "ksummit-2013-discuss-cunTk1MwBs98uUxBSJOaYoYkZiVZrdSR2LY78lusg7I@public.gmane.org" , Mark Brown , "linux-arm-kernel-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org" List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On 10/21/2013 06:07 PM, Richard Cochran wrote: > On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 11:15:56AM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote: >> >> Right now, we're taking away much of that flexibility and I see progress >> on ARM actively hindered. > > Baloney. > > No one is taking away your flexibility or hindering progress. It is > really very simple. Just make an arm-dt-devel tree where you can both > change the bindings at will and recommend to people. Once bindings > have seen some real world testing and have had time to mature, then > request a merge into mainline. Thierry already has working patches for LCD support, and the "request [for] a merge into mainline" is just "send the patch to be applied to mainline", which he did, and was blocked on, because of the potential existance of CDF if the future. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html