From: thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com (Thomas Petazzoni)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 5/6] ARM: dove: Remove watchdog from DT
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:14:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120925121439.49c5d0dd@skate> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120925094610.GF27099@lunn.ch>
Dear Andrew Lunn,
On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 11:46:10 +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> I principle, i agree. However, i'm not too sure about mach-orion5x &
> mach-mv78xx0. orion5x has probably been broken since -rc1 was released
> and nobody noticed. In the same time, we got around 5 people
> independently reporting kirkwood was broken. We have not received any
> new boards for orion5x in the time i've been looking at Orion
> platforms. mv78xx0 only has one board which is not a Marvell reference
> design. So im tempted to not spend any effort moving orion5x or
> mv78xx0 to DT unless these actually hinder the effort of moving the
> others to DT. What may make sense is to flatten mv78xx0 and orion5x
> into plat-orion and then just watch the bit-rot happen.
I'll try to see if I can get people from LaCie to test mach-orion5x as
I have a few contacts there, and I'll contact Marvell to see if they can
still provide Orion-based platforms.
Regarding mv78xx0, I agree that I'm not sure what to do. The number of
supported platforms is small. Should we simply mark mv78xx0 deprecated
now, wait a few release cycles to see if anyone shows up, and see what
to do at this point?
> I have patches which convert all existing DT based kirkwood boards to
> the new gpio/pinctrl code. There are two outstanding issues:
>
> 1) I've no idea which kirkwood variant each board uses. Hence the
> compatibility string will be wrong for a lot of them.
>
> 2) I'm probably made lots of dumb typos.
>
> So we need to get board maintainers to complete and test the work.
Agreed. If some don't answer, we could consider dropping support for
those boards. If people show up again later, it is still possible to
get through the git history and revive one particular board. But we
can't, and shouldn't be forced to remain in the past due to
unmaintained platforms, IMO.
> > * Refactor the PCI code so that it can cover all cases. We should
> > soon be working on PCI support on Armada 370/XP, so it will show
> > what are the differences/issues in having something that covers all
> > cases.
>
> Have you looked at the orion5x PCI code? Its very different to all the
> others and i doubt it will be easy to make work with all the others.
No, I haven't looked seriously at the PCI code for the moment. I should
have the opportunity to do so at some point.
Best regards,
Thomas
--
Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
development, consulting, training and support.
http://free-electrons.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-25 10:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-25 0:02 [PATCH 0/6] Dove fixes for arm-soc/for-next Sebastian Hesselbarth
2012-09-25 0:02 ` [PATCH 1/6] ARM: dove: Add pcie clock support Sebastian Hesselbarth
2012-09-25 0:02 ` [PATCH 2/6] ARM: dove: Fix tauros2 device tree init Sebastian Hesselbarth
2012-09-25 1:22 ` Sebastian Hesselbarth
2012-09-25 5:19 ` Andrew Lunn
2012-09-25 8:56 ` Sebastian Hesselbarth
2012-09-25 0:02 ` [PATCH 3/6] ARM: dove: Fix clock names of sata and gbe Sebastian Hesselbarth
2012-09-25 0:02 ` [PATCH 4/6] ARM: dove: Restructure SoC device tree descriptor Sebastian Hesselbarth
2012-09-25 0:02 ` [PATCH 5/6] ARM: dove: Remove watchdog from DT Sebastian Hesselbarth
2012-09-25 5:35 ` Andrew Lunn
2012-09-25 9:11 ` Sebastian Hesselbarth
2012-09-25 9:18 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-09-25 9:46 ` Andrew Lunn
2012-09-25 10:14 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2012-09-25 10:31 ` Andrew Lunn
2012-09-25 11:20 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-25 11:48 ` Arnaud Patard (Rtp)
2012-09-25 12:28 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-10-08 18:40 ` Martin Michlmayr
2012-10-08 19:57 ` Andrew Lunn
2012-10-08 20:10 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-10-08 20:29 ` Andrew Lunn
2012-09-25 12:33 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-25 18:25 ` sebastien requiem
2012-09-25 20:02 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-25 0:02 ` [PATCH 6/6] ARM: dove: Add crypto engine to DT Sebastian Hesselbarth
2012-09-25 5:37 ` [PATCH 0/6] Dove fixes for arm-soc/for-next Andrew Lunn
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