Re: [PATCH 0/5] ARM: orion5x/dove/mv78xx0 multiplatform

Arnd Bergmann
2015-11-25T20:05:42Z

On Wednesday 25 November 2015 18:37:28 Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 05:09:37PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > Russell, you are the last known user of mach-dove. What are your
> > plans? You keep saying you have given up trying to mainline your Cubox
> > patches. Have you really given up? Can we remove mach-dove?
>
> Right now, I'm developing etnaviv in spare time on the Cubox[*], which
> is still primarily running a non-DT kernel.
>
> It's actually a kernel that I've hacked which is capable of booting
> both DT and non-DT, but even when booted in DT mode, I still require
> much of the arch/arm/mach-dove infrastructure to get things like
> armada-drm, etnaviv and other drivers running. Especially because
> we're missing things like the high-speed clocks (the stuff above the
> tclk domain.) I've not even started to work out how to get that
> into mainline, or how to integrate that with CCF. Quite what can be
> done with the audio patches, I've no idea, that remains a bone of
> contention and stalemate, and currently isn't DT-able. See the list
> of patches at the end of this message...

I think it's ok to keep mach-dove around for a longer time to keep the
board file, I'm way more interested in completing the multiplatform
work at last.

If I understand you right, being able to build mach-dove and mach-mvebu
together will actually help you remove one or more of your patches,
but of course will require a small bit of rebasing.

Arnd