From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: swarren@wwwdotorg.org (Stephen Warren) Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 19:38:11 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] ARM: add support for BCM2708/BCM2835 and Raspberry Pi In-Reply-To: References: <1346908038-22421-1-git-send-email-swarren@wwwdotorg.org> Message-ID: <50495003.500@wwwdotorg.org> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 09/06/2012 10:53 AM, Seth Jennings wrote: > (sorry for the dup Stephen, forgot to reply all :-/) > > On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 12:07 AM, Stephen Warren wrote: >> >> The BCM2708 is an ARM SoC from Broadcom. It is the primary SoC in a >> series which contains the BCM2835 amongst other variants. This patch >> adds very basic support for this series of SoCs, under the BCM2708 name. > > Great work! I'm glad to see this heading upstream :) > >> This series was extracted from git://github.com/lp0/linux.git branch >> rpi-next or rpi-linear from 3-4 months ago, and significantly stripped >> down and modified since. > > I've used Simon's tree before and it will boot up all the way with UART > support (no graphics, usb, network). I also think it has a fully > populated device > tree. Why, in particular, did you strip it down? Mainly because not stripping it down would be a huge patch or set of patches to review at once. The smaller and more basic we start, the easier it is to get reviewed/applied etc., and then build on incrementally.