From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Russell King - ARM Linux Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] omap changes for v2.6.39 merge window Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 18:44:59 +0100 Message-ID: <20110401174459.GA8615@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <201104011659.40443.arnd@arndb.de> <4D95EF8E.9080902@vollmann.ch> <201104011750.17344.arnd@arndb.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201104011750.17344.arnd@arndb.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Detlef Vollmann , Ingo Molnar , david@lang.hm, Nicolas Pitre , Tony Lindgren , Catalin Marinas , lkml , "H. Peter Anvin" , David Brown , linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Thomas Gleixner , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 05:50:17PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Friday 01 April 2011, Detlef Vollmann wrote: > > On 04/01/11 16:59, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > On Friday 01 April 2011, Detlef Vollmann wrote: > > >> On 04/01/11 15:54, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > > > >>> 9. All interesting work is going into a handful of platforms, all of which > > >>> are ARMv7 based. > > >> Define interesting. > > > > > > The ones that are causing the churn that we're talking about. > > > Platforms that have been working forever and only need to get > > > the occasional bug fix are boring, i.e. not the problem. > > In the ARM tree I only know mach-at91. > > Atmel still introduces new SOCs based on ARM926EJ-S, and that makes > > perfect sense for lots of applications. > > I thought new ones were generally Cortex-M3 based. Either way, even > if there are exceptions, focusing on ARMv7 at first should give > a good representation of the new development. If they're M3 then they're a microcontroller, and so would be using uclinux.