From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com (Alexandre Belloni) Date: Wed, 6 May 2015 11:53:12 +0200 Subject: [1/2] RTC: Add core rtc support for Gemini Soc devices In-Reply-To: <2694895.MomHLoCaoZ@wuerfel> References: <1292339307-14336-2-git-send-email-ulli.kroll@googlemail.com> <20150501234214.GK12076@piout.net> <2694895.MomHLoCaoZ@wuerfel> Message-ID: <20150506095312.GU4276@piout.net> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 06/05/2015 at 11:39:58 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote : > On Saturday 02 May 2015 01:42:14 Alexandre Belloni wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On 14/12/2010 at 16:08:26 +0100, Hans Ulli Kroll wrote : > > > driver for the rtc device > > > on Cortina Systems CS3516 or StormlinkSemi SL3516 aka Gemini SoC > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Hans Ulli Kroll > > > > This driver has never been merged and the platform doesn't seem to be > > active anymore. Is there still any interest in getting this driver > > mainlined? > > > > Only tree wide cleanups happened in mach-gemini since end of 2010, the > > listed git repository (git://git.berlios.de/gemini-board) was on berliOS > > (closed since 2011) and the sourceforge mirror seems empty. Is there > > still interest in keeping that platform in the mainline? > > As far as I know, the platform is still used by a number of people, > and is supported by OpenWRT. The reason we haven't seen updates is that > Ulli has been mostly absent from upstream development, and we haven't > had any other person step up as maintainer. > > I have a patch to convert the platform to ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM, and > the code doesn't really get in the way otherwise. > > As far as I'm concerned, we should just merge all the patches from > http://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt.git;a=tree;f=target/linux/gemini/patches-3.18 > > We should also try to find a maintainer that can respond to patches > in a timely manner. If Ulli has time for that again, that would be great, > otherwise I think we should find someone from OpenWRT to take over. > Thanks to point that, I'll merge that one which seems clean enough: http://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt.git;a=blob;f=target/linux/gemini/files/drivers/rtc/rtc-gemini.c;h=587d8122b2fbb1230437eadcce4789a53aa60ee5;hb=4c637410a2a1ab45988e8ca6202554a502102039 -- Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com