From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com (Thomas Petazzoni) Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 19:46:54 +0100 Subject: [ARM ATTEND] Following discussions, ARM64 SoC support, DT backward compat Message-ID: <20140326194654.72beb639@skate> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Hello, I'm a regular contributor to the Marvell EBU platform, mainly regarding the support of the most recent processors Armada 370, Armada XP, Armada 375 and Armada 38x. For this reason, I'm interested in following discussions with the other ARM kernel maintainers and contributors, simply to ensure I remain up-to-date with the latest directions in the ARM kernel world. Also, I'm interested specifically in: * Hearing a bit about ARM64, and how the SoC support is going to work. For example how code is shared between ARM and ARM64 when you have two SoCs that are similar, but one has a 32 bits ARM core and the other a 64 bits ARM core. And generally the status of ARM64 support. * Discussing practical examples of Device Tree backward compatibility, and how to handle them. Discuss whether improvements to the FDT API are not needed to help in coping with those backward compatibility problems. Thanks! Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com