From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Henrik =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Nordstr=F6m?= Subject: Re: getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1)) Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 20:51:52 +0200 Message-ID: <1370544712.31564.11.camel@localhost> References: <51AFA6DD.3000202@wwwdotorg.org> <1370469574.18839.33.camel@localhost> <1370475609.20454.44.camel@localhost> <1370477958.20454.68.camel@localhost> Reply-To: Linux on small ARM machines Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: arm-netbook-bounces@lists.phcomp.co.uk Sender: "arm-netbook" To: Linux on small ARM machines Cc: devicetree-discuss , Stephen Warren , Linux Kernel Mailing List , debian-arm@lists.debian.org, "jonsmirl@gmail.com" , ARM Linux Mailing List , debian-kernel@lists.debian.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org tor 2013-06-06 klockan 13:22 +0100 skrev luke.leighton: > idea: hook into devicetree gpio functions to allow script-fex gpio functions to gain access in a separate module? that sort of thing. No. Drop FEX from the kernel, use DT. There is no reason why the kernel shold care about the FEX format. Translate from FEX to DT where needed in the "firmware" image build process to allow Allwinner to keep the FEX as hardware description to the ODMs. Regards Henrik