From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tony Lindgren Subject: Re: Fate of OMAP3-Touchbook board Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 01:35:40 -0700 Message-ID: <20120816083540.GJ11011@atomide.com> References: <502C0BF4.4010502@mrkva.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org ([204.13.248.72]:41622 "EHLO mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756242Ab2HPIfn (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Aug 2012 04:35:43 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <502C0BF4.4010502@mrkva.eu> Sender: linux-omap-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org To: Radek Pilar Cc: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org * Radek Pilar [120815 14:00]: > Hello, > a few months ago, Always Innovating - a company behind their OMAP3 based > product Touchbook basically stopped production. I've been porting some > specific drivers for current kernels since then and I'd like to push at > least some of them to the mainline. > However, I found a bug in mainline that prevents this device from > booting - and looks like noone has reported it for a few months. > So, I'd like to ask - do you want to keep this board in mainline (in > this case, I can send a few patches adding few drivers (backlight, > accelerometer, soundcard, keyboard). Or do you want to remove it from > the mainline altogether? The fix should be posted for -rc cycle. Minimal patches for the board-*.c files are OK, but we should put most effort making things usable with device tree based booting. Regards, Tony