From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH arm: initial TI-Nspire support]
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2013 13:51:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201304061351.00889.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8FB21B56-58BC-4530-8C7A-71A32856210D@gmail.com>
On Saturday 06 April 2013, Daniel Tang wrote:
> Hi,
>
> First of all, thank you for your comments!
>
> On 04/04/2013, at 10:12 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
>
> > For new platforms, we want to have only the absolute minimum amount of
> > code in arch/arm and move everything else into drivers. However, that
> > is only possible using device tree. It should not add any significant
> > complexity to your code, and you can easily bundle the device tree blob
> > with the kernel.
>
> Given that most of your comments described some very fundamental changes
> (esp switching to DTB) to the structure of our port, we've decided we'll
> probably start from scratch and fix the issues you outlined as we
> reimplement our platform.
>
> At the moment, we're working on getting a basic DTB-booting kernel working
> so our next patch will be starting from basics.
Ok, whichever way you prefer. If you have questions while working on this,
feel free to join #armlinux on irc.freenode.net, there are usually other
people working on the same things.
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-06 11:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-04 9:01 [RFC PATCH arm: initial TI-Nspire support] Daniel Tang
2013-04-04 11:12 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-04-06 0:26 ` Daniel Tang
2013-04-06 11:51 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2013-04-06 12:00 ` Daniel Tang
2013-04-06 13:24 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-04-07 0:06 ` Daniel Tang
2013-04-07 3:56 ` Daniel Tang
2013-04-07 21:23 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-04-08 11:33 ` Daniel Tang
2013-04-08 19:16 ` Fabian Vogt
2013-04-08 19:38 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-04-08 20:06 ` Fabian Vogt
2013-04-08 21:29 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-04-09 5:59 ` Daniel Tang
2013-04-09 11:23 ` Linus Walleij
2013-04-09 12:01 ` Pawel Moll
2013-04-09 12:05 ` Linus Walleij
2013-04-09 13:51 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-04-07 14:32 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-04-09 11:14 ` Linus Walleij
2013-04-09 11:39 ` Daniel Tang
2013-04-09 11:58 ` Linus Walleij
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