From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: kaloz@openwrt.org (Imre Kaloz) Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 20:06:07 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 3/6] ARM: remove fa526 CPU support In-Reply-To: References: <1363299178-8241-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> <5146FB70.9000706@openwrt.org> <201303191035.45874.arnd@arndb.de> Message-ID: To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:55:18 +0100, Imre Kaloz wrote: > On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 11:35:45 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > >> On Tuesday 19 March 2013, Imre Kaloz wrote: >>> I have two wbd111 boards, but their bootloader is fubared - for whatever >>> reason the bootloader's ethernet support works horribly for me, as in an >>> image transfer takes well over 10 mins, and 90% of the time it fails >>> meantime. I have another gemini based board, which doesn't have mainline >>> support, yet. >>> >>> So for gemini, what I can offer is digging up the wbd111 and testing your >>> patches this weekend - if that works, it can stay in mainline for another >>> kernel release, and I can try to add support for the other board (so >>> there would be a sane platform to test on). If you are going to drop it, >>> I will likely keep it working in OpenWrt as long as those boards don't >>> die on me. >> >> Sounds good. If you are still interested in keeping the code alive, we >> shouldn't drop it upstream. Can you also add a defconfig file that >> enables all the gemini specific Kconfig code plus whatever you use >> in OpenWRT? >> >> Part of the reason why the platform was so broken is that it never had >> a defconfig, and we didn't notice the bitrot. > > Sure, I'll try to get all of this done this weekend. > Just tested 3.9-rc4 with your "ARM: gemini: get platform to build again" patch and the ones we have in our tree and it works on my WBD111. Please apply that patch and with a little luck I can get the other board working for 3.11, with the additional defconfig and some more hw support as well -- or if you would like so, I can get a defconfig done for 3.10, but I'm not sure it makes too much sense. Imre