From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: arnaud.patard@rtp-net.org (Arnaud Patard (Rtp)) Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 23:53:12 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] maintainership update for the Marvell Orion family of SOCs In-Reply-To: <201204302124.28892.arnd@arndb.de> (Arnd Bergmann's message of "Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:24:28 +0000") References: <87wr4x9c9t.fsf@lebrac.rtp-net.org> <201204302124.28892.arnd@arndb.de> Message-ID: <87mx5sanuf.fsf@lebrac.rtp-net.org> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Arnd Bergmann writes: > On Monday 30 April 2012, Arnaud Patard wrote: >> Sorry to hijack a little bit this thread, but I got a few days ago a >> 88ap510/dove device so I was wondering if the work currently done on >> kirkwood would allow us the same kernel binary at least on dove and >> kirkwood ? [1] If so, when it'll be possible, will it be considered to >> move the corresponding board setup from >> arch/arm/mach-{dove,kirkwood,...} into a new directory, like what was >> done on recently on imx ? >> >> [1] I'm only talking of kirkwood and dove because it's only what I can >> test. Of course, if it can be a single kernel binary for >> dove/kirkwood/mv78xx0/orion5x, it'll be even better. > > While I don't know of anyone working on this currently, I've also thought > about it being doable, but I would defer it until we can probe all > the devices using the device tree, because at that point it will get > much simpler. We might just move all the DT based board support into ok. > the plat-orion directory and leave the other directories for the classic > probing, eventually to be removed when the new stuff can handle all the > machines that someone cares about. I'm not sure we'll be able to remove any machine without being sure it's working and it can take quite some time. orion/kirkwood/... are used on NAS boxes so I guess people are not necessary updating their kernel on a regular basis. > > Note that dove is fundamentally incompatible with the others at runtime, > being ARMv7 based instead of ARMv5, but it could still live in the same > directory, like we do for other platforms. oh, right. I guess I need some sleep. Arnaud