From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] Thumb-2 kernel support Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:01:40 -0700 Message-ID: <20080723130140.ff016944.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20080606173300.7930.31525.stgit@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com> <20080630125110.1dc5689a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1214901131.29199.31.camel@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com> <20080701014529.272706d8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1216829155.23395.19.camel@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:48808 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754209AbYGWUCQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:02:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1216829155.23395.19.camel@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com> Sender: linux-next-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Catalin Marinas Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk, linux-next@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:05:55 +0100 Catalin Marinas wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 01:45 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:32:11 +0100 Catalin Marinas wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 12:51 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:33:00 +0100 > > > > Catalin Marinas wrote: > > > > > > > > > This series of patches allows the kernel to be compiled to Thumb-2 mode > > > > > (on ARMv7 CPUs). The patches have been posted a few times on the list > > > > > and the comments were implemented (hopefully I haven't missed any). > > > > > > > > > > If/when there are no more comments, I'd like the series to be merged > > > > > into the -mm tree if Andrew agrees. It was tested and generated against > > > > > the 2.6.26-rc2-mm1 kernel. > > > [...] > > > > OK, I added this tree to -mm. Nobody is likely to test or review it > > > > there, but at least I might pick up on any merge or build issues. > > Were the Thumb-2 patches merged in any of the -mm tree releases? I now > updated the series to the 2.6.26-rc8-mm1 kernel if you still consider > merging them (___git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6 for-akpm). I pull it regularly but always get rejects and never got around to looking into fixing them. Probably the git-thumb tree is based on an ARM git tree so I'd need to generate the diff reletive to that tree. But I just haven't got onto it, sorry. > > > > If you're hankering for a 2.6.27 merge of this material it might be > > > > more appropriate to add it to linux-next. > > > > > > I aim for the ___post 2.6.27 merge window (i.e. patches available in > > > 2.6.28). > > > > OK, then in that case it shouldn't go into linux-next until around > > 2.6.27-rc1 time. > > Russell (and others in the ARM community), are you OK with this set of > patches being merged into 2.6.28 mainline (i.e. at the next merging > window)? If yes, do you acknowledge the patches? In the meantime, I can > rebase them on top of linux-next to check for possible merge conflicts > (or even ask for them to be pulled into linux-next). yup, we should maintain the tree in linux-next if it's for 2.6.28.