From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] [RFC] pinctrl: add a driver for Energy Micro's efm32 SoCs
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 13:55:16 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201112091355.16720.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111209092300.GR4585@pengutronix.de>
On Friday 09 December 2011, Uwe Kleine-K?nig wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 11:55:53PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Thursday 08 December 2011 23:40:57 Uwe Kleine-K?nig wrote:
> > > Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-K?nig <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
> > > ---
> > > Note that there is no support yet for efm32 in mainline, so ARCH_EFM32
> > > isn't defined.
> >
> > Since the platform is not yet part of the architecture, it will have
> > to use device tree based probing when it gets added. I would suggest
> > only merging drivers for it that can deal with this and do not rely
> > on platform_data.
>
> I feared you will say that. These machines have at most 4MiB of RAM.
> I'll have to evaluate if dt is too heavy for them.
What's the state of the platform code? Is this based on Catalin's
Cortex-M3 tree? I've heard a few people express interest in getting
various M3 based SoCs supported mainline and I think that would
be a good idea, but I would also expect that device tree is one
of the lesser problems here.
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-09 13:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-08 22:40 [PATCH] [RFC] pinctrl: add a driver for Energy Micro's efm32 SoCs Uwe Kleine-König
2011-12-08 22:55 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-12-09 9:23 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2011-12-09 13:55 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2011-12-09 14:15 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2011-12-08 23:14 ` Stephen Warren
2011-12-09 1:01 ` Shawn Guo
2011-12-09 3:44 ` Stephen Warren
2011-12-09 4:32 ` Shawn Guo
2011-12-09 4:47 ` Stephen Warren
2011-12-09 5:14 ` Shawn Guo
2011-12-09 11:08 ` Sascha Hauer
2011-12-09 13:01 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2011-12-10 0:18 ` Linus Walleij
2011-12-12 14:37 ` Sascha Hauer
2011-12-12 15:29 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2011-12-13 0:41 ` Linus Walleij
2011-12-09 16:53 ` Stephen Warren
2011-12-09 15:03 ` Dong Aisheng
2011-12-09 16:49 ` Stephen Warren
2011-12-09 17:24 ` Tony Lindgren
2011-12-09 17:53 ` Tony Lindgren
2011-12-10 0:14 ` Stephen Warren
2011-12-11 19:34 ` Tony Lindgren
2011-12-09 9:31 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2011-12-10 0:04 ` Linus Walleij
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