From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: shawn.guo@freescale.com (Shawn Guo) Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 10:51:54 +0800 Subject: [PATCH 0/6] add initial imx6q support In-Reply-To: <2043782.jegSLqAsTH@wuerfel> References: <1315303120-24203-1-git-send-email-shawn.guo@linaro.org> <2043782.jegSLqAsTH@wuerfel> Message-ID: <20110907025152.GA8148@S2100-06.ap.freescale.net> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 08:28:39PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Tuesday 06 September 2011 17:58:34 Shawn Guo wrote: > > This patch series adds the initial support for imx6q, which is a > > Cortex-A9 MPCore (4 cores) SoC. > > > > It's based on v3.1-rc4 with the patches below applied. > > > > * [PATCH v2 0/5] Convert DEBUG_LL UART selection to a Kconfig choice > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/129702 > > > > * [PATCH v4 2/2] ARM: l2x0: Add OF based initialization > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1164401 > > > > * [PATCH 1/7] ARM: l2x0: add empty l2x0_of_init > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/130878 > > > > * [RFC PATCH 0/3] Yet another GIC OF binding series > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.devicetree/7226 > > > > For suspend/resume support, it needs the following extra patches > > applied. > > > > * [PATCH v2 0/2] make reinitialization of ARM core components possible > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/131356 > > > > * [PATCH v2 0/5] CPU PM notifiers > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/131212/focus=131353 > > Hi Shawn, > > We've talked about it before, but I don't remember the outcome. Can you > explain (and add to the above text) a short explanation of why this is > in the mach-imx directory, rather than the mach-mx5 (which probably is > closer to mx6 than mx3 is) or a new mach-mx6? > As Uwe mentioned, our long term view on imx sub-architecture is to move mach-mx5 into mach-imx, so that we can have single mach folder for imx, though whether we eventually move plat-mxc into mach-imx or not is another thing we can think about later. I will add something about that in the cover letter with the next post. -- Regards, Shawn