Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] Mainline kernel on a cellphone

[Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@samsung.com>]

On 26.08.2015 13:25, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 10:22:11AM +0900, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> On 26.08.2015 03:59, Tim Bird wrote:
>>> On 07/29/2015 12:40 AM, Pavel Machek wrote:
> <snip>
>>
>> 4. Their coding style is so different that I can't imagine mainlining
>> them into staging area... Recently I was digging into Mali400 and it was
>> literally hurting my eyes to see that coding style. It's like opposite
>> of kernel.
> Hi,
> I have seen Mali code once few months ago and true that the styling
> there is exactly opposite of what we use. But anyway, I hope including
> that in staging will be beneficial for all of you. 

Looking at the list of SoCs using Mali:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali_(GPU)
then clearly a lot of vendors could benefit from that. I would be happy
to see Mali in staging/mainline.

> And I can also guess
> that it will be a waste of your time if you add it to staging and
> refactor the code ultimately merging it to the main part of the kerel.
> 
> I am not an experienced Mali developer but if you all are ok with it then
> I can take up the task of adding it to staging. But I will need to have
> a board for that as without hardware Greg will not allow the code to be
> added. And Krzysztof has suggested ODROID-U3 for this purpose.

Right, I suggested Odroid-U3 (with Mali 400 and Exynos4412) because the
board works quite well with mainline. Most of stuff is upstreamed.
However I am using Tizen TV profile (public) on it with 4.0 kernel (not
entirely public).

There are a lot of more devices with Mali 400 or newer so the question
would be rather - which board would work the best (with less problems)
on mainline.

Anyway good luck :)

Best regards,
Krzysztof