Re: OMAP34xx

Olof Johansson
2012-02-04T19:23:07Z

On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> wrote:
> * Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> [120204 10:24]:
>> Does someone want to try building and running Linux on (eg) an OMAP34xx
>> platform before I post my next email message on this subject, and
>> maybe send me a bunch of patches required to fix stuff, to be applied
>> to my tree _and_ _then_ forwarded to Linus next Friday.
>>
>> So, think of this as your last chance, and you'll get the picture about
>> how pissed off I am with the - yet again - current poor state of OMAP
>> in mainline, which seems to happen every merge window.
>>
>> Consider this: when Linus started using a PowerPC platform, the PowerPC
>> people quickly realized that pushing patches upstream which broke stuff
>> was a really bad idea, because they got publically flamed for such
>> actions especially when stuff was not obviously tested.
>>
>> This is no different... and this is _not_ my original email which I have
>> queued up with the real hot flames in over this.  This is the toned down
>> version.  The flames won't get sent if OMAP gets fixed quickly - and if
>> testing improves to stop this constant cycle of regressions at every
>> merge window.
>
> Do you have the patches applied already queued up in arm-soc fixes
> branch?

I've been sitting on those longer than I meant to, my bad. I'll send a
pull request to Linus in a little bit.

-Olof
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