Re: N810: latest linux-omap-2.6.git master

[Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>]

* Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi> [090520 07:11]:
> Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> writes:
> 
> >> > Is anyone actually trying to work on or maintain N8x0 support?
> >> 
> >> I think N8x0 support is a little bit behind from other boards. Lot of
> >> active development is going around on newer and more open platforms like
> >> Beagle and not all patches are necessary tested on N8x0 (or other boards
> >> too!). Of course active hacker base helps to point out breakages.
> >
> > We should try to get the board-n8x0 stuff in shape for mainline maybe
> > the next merge window after this, anybody willing to spend some cycles
> > on preparing the patches against the mainline tree?
> 
> So that's something like three months from now? Hmm. If someone else
> doesn't volunteer I can try to spend some time on this. I would love to
> see n800 and n810 supported in mainline.
> 
> But I cannot make any promises, though. It would be great if someone
> else can step up.

OK, I can help a bit too. Here's what I have in mind we should do:

- Rename the board-*c files to board-n8x0-*.c. I can do this assuming
  people are OK with this.

- Get the gpio-switch replacement completed and into mainline.
  Jani, any news on that? There's a threaad about that at:
  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/809866

- Stop using omap specific ATAGs and pass all the gpio etc info
  from platform_data. This should be easy with CONFIG_ATAGS_PROC
  that shows the passed ATAGs in /proc. I can work on this too.

- Get drivers/cbus into mainline. Kalle, do you want to do this?

I guess there's some other clean-up needed too that we can all
work once we have the initial patches working against the mainline.

Regards,

Tony