Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] arm64, thunder: Enable Cavium Thunder SoC Family

Robert Richter
2014-10-02T07:29:43Z

On 23.09.14 16:14:29, Robert Richter wrote:
> On 23.09.14 12:21:05, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 11:46:41AM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> > > On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 11:41:22AM +0100, Robert Richter wrote:
> > > > On 12.09.14 19:49:43, Robert Richter wrote:
> > > > > From: Robert Richter <rrichter@cavium.com>
> > > > >
> > > > > This initial patches enable Cavium Thunder SoC Family. The patches add
> > > > > devicetree and Kconfig support and then add Thunder to the defconfig.
> > > > >
> > > > > The Thunder system needs more enablement patches for subsystems and
> > > > > devices, this includes network, ahci, gicv3/gicv3-its, pci, smmu, kvm.
> > > > > We will send separate patch sets for these. All of them base on this
> > > > > initial patches.
> > > > >
> > > > > I sent a separate patch set independently that introduces support for
> > > > > dts vendor subdirs. After both patch sets have been applied I will
> > > > > send a patch in addition that moves the dts file into a subdirectory.
> > > > >
> > > > > I sent another separate patch that sets NR_CPUS to 64 per default.
> > > > >
> > > > > The first patch introduces dts files without having a Kconfig option
> > > > > for the soc (ARCH_THUNDER). However, this is introduced in patch 3 and
> > > > > added to defconfig in patch 4 as this is my preferred solution. If
> > > > > there is still resistance having an ARCH_THUNDER option, just drop
> > > > > them.
> > > > >
> > > > > Patches are available here:
> > > > >
> > > > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rric/linux.git thunder/init
> > > >
> > > > it would be good if these patches could be applied.
> > >
> > > Catalin's handling the 3.18 merge window, but this looks like arm-soc
> > > material anyway and should go via Olof/Arnd.
> >
> > Yes. Olof said he's cherry-picking arm64 SoC patches (or Robert could
> > send him a pull request).
>
> just in case you want to pull, please pull from:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rric/linux.git tags/for-arm-soc-v3.18

Olof, Arnd,

please pull or apply.

Thanks,

-Robert