From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann) Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2012 19:27:47 +0000 Subject: [PATCH V2] ARM: add support for BCM2708/BCM2835 and Raspberry Pi In-Reply-To: <504B8359.80403@wwwdotorg.org> References: <1347083284-17799-1-git-send-email-swarren@wwwdotorg.org> <504B3BED.9080204@simon.arlott.org.uk> <504B8359.80403@wwwdotorg.org> Message-ID: <9292467.5Y4vCKkKhh@wuerfel> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Saturday 08 September 2012 11:41:45 Stephen Warren wrote: > On 09/08/2012 06:37 AM, Simon Arlott wrote: > > On 08/09/12 06:48, Stephen Warren wrote: > > > I don't know what you're trying to achieve. This does not add support > > for the BCM2708. > > I'm trying to get upstreaming started, a little bit at a time. Right > now, all work has been done outside the regular Linux ARM community. I > feel it'd be much better to start feeding the work upstream. This will > provide much better exposure for the work, and put it into a place > that's more obvious for users, and useful for distros. > > Obviously, the next step after this patch is to upstream the interrupt > controller and timer, to resolve the problem mentioned above. There's > certainly still much more to do after that. I think it would be good to get those reviewed and submitted in time for the merge window, to have something that actually boots. I agree that for review purposes starting out with just the minimal patch was a good idea, but when the other stuff looks reasonable, we should also try to get it in at the same time. Arnd