Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] Add initial support for Rockchip RK3528 SoC

[Yao Zi <ziyao@disroot.org>]

On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 01:13:25AM +0200, Heiko Stuebner wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> Am Dienstag, 17. September 2024, 22:14:36 CEST schrieb Yao Zi:
> > On Thu, Aug 29, 2024 at 09:27:01AM +0000, Yao Zi wrote:
> > > Rockchip RK3528 is a quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 SoC designed for
> > > multimedia application. This series add a basic device tree with CPU,
> > > interrupts and UART nodes for it and is able to boot into a kernel with
> > > only UART console.
> > > 
> > > Has been tested on Radxa E20C board[1] with vendor U-boot, successfully
> > > booted into initramfs with this log[2].
> 
> > Ping on this thread. Is it possible to get this merged in v6.12? Or
> > anything else I need to do?
> 
> sadly nope. From a timeline point of view things should ideally be in the
> Rockchip tree by -rc6 . Which then move to the soc tree and from there
> to Linus' tree.
> 
> There is this rule that all new development for a -rc1 kernel should be
> present in linux-next _before_ the merge-window opens.
> 
> The thing we need to figure out for your series is the uart binding,
> because that _should_ go through the tree handling serial drivers.
> Greg is in your cc list but with the amount of mail he gets, I don't
> think he has single-parts of patch series on his radar.
> 
> So I guess the easiest way would be to send the uart-binding from patch 1
> as a completely separate patch with adapted Cc list, so that it's obvious
> this should go through the serial tree.

Will do it, thanks for the suggestion.

> From talking with Collabora people today at the Open Source Summit, it
> seems that's also their plan for the rk3576 that is stuck at a similar
> state.
> 
> 
> Hope that helps a bit to explain

Thanks for your reply.

Cheers,
Yao Zi