Re: [PATCH 00/11] ARM: at91: remove !DT support for at91rm9200

Arnd Bergmann
2014-11-28T12:07:37Z

On Friday 28 November 2014 12:31:12 Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> On 28/11/2014 at 09:49:10 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote :
> > > > Actually, some work was done but we never saw an other version of the
> > > > series. Alexander, are you still interested? Else we can take the patch
> > > > below.
> > > >
> > > > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2014-April/246679.html
> >
> > I see. Yes, the approach is similar, and there are actually multiple
> > independent problems:
> >
> > - getting the current driver to build with multiplatform (trivial, 5 lines)
> > - changing the gpio handling to work with DT (simple, both of us did that)
> > - writing the binding (simple)
>
> Yeah, let's focus on those first steps. Takashi was willing to take
> patches, even if we were not converting the driver to ASoC.
>
> > - changing the driver to ASoC (not that simple)
> >
> > > Well, I tried to get a ac97c driver based on alsa soc framework as suggested
> > > by Takashi. But I failed so far, I could not get my head around those
> > > architecture.
> >
> > Let's just start with the trivial first patch, that can probably just be merged
> > into 3.19, and then we can build on top of that later if anybody wants to
> > get ac97 working again on at91.
> >
>
> Do you want one of us to send that patch to Takashi and the Alsa ML or
> will you do it?
> You can add my ack.

Please send it after you have checked that it actually works, I only
took a snippet from my earlier patch assuming it would be sufficient,
but I didn't try.

Arnd