[RFC PATCH 0/5] arm: Restore minimal support for ST-Ericsson U8500 SoC

[Stephan Gerhold <stephan@gerhold.net>]

Hi Tom,

On Sat, Jan 04, 2020 at 06:45:14PM +0100, Stephan Gerhold wrote:
> This patch series restores minimal U-Boot support for
> the ST-Ericsson NovaThor U8500 SoC.
> 
> Previous support for U8500 was removed in
> commit 68282f55b846 ("arm: Remove unused ST-Ericsson u8500 arch")
> since none of the boards were converted to generic boards
> before the deadline.
> 
> The motivation for adding the SoC and board is explained in
>   - Patch 3 ("arm: Add support for ST-Ericsson U8500 SoC") and
>   - Patch 5 ("board: Add new Samsung "stemmy" board based on ST-Ericsson U8500")
> 
> I have additional patches for MMC, USB, display and the "stemmy"
> board, that configure it to provide an Android fastboot interface
> with similar functionality as the original Samsung bootloader.
> Some of the patches require some additional work, so I thought
> it is easier to start with some minimal changes first (only UART).
> 
> I think this makes the patch series quite straightforward,
> with only ~225 new lines of C code, plus device tree and documentation.
> The only patch that stands out with ~1.8k lines is the device tree
> import, directly copied (without modification) from the Linux kernel.
> 

Since we are approaching the end of the merge window,
I was wondering if there is anything I can do to get this patch set
applied for v2020.04?

Thanks,
Stephan

> 
> Stephan Gerhold (5):
>   timer: Add driver for Nomadik Multi Timer Unit (MTU)
>   arm: dts: Import device tree for ST-Ericsson Ux500
>   arm: Add support for ST-Ericsson U8500 SoC
>   MAINTAINERS: Add ARM U8500
>   board: Add new Samsung "stemmy" board based on ST-Ericsson U8500
> 
>  MAINTAINERS                                |    8 +
>  arch/arm/Kconfig                           |   20 +
>  arch/arm/Makefile                          |    1 +
>  arch/arm/dts/Makefile                      |    2 +
>  arch/arm/dts/ste-ab8500.dtsi               |  328 ++++++
>  arch/arm/dts/ste-ab8505.dtsi               |  275 +++++
>  arch/arm/dts/ste-dbx5x0-u-boot.dtsi        |   29 +
>  arch/arm/dts/ste-dbx5x0.dtsi               | 1144 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/arm/dts/ste-ux500-samsung-stemmy.dts  |   20 +
>  arch/arm/include/asm/gpio.h                |    2 +-
>  arch/arm/mach-u8500/Kconfig                |   27 +
>  arch/arm/mach-u8500/Makefile               |    4 +
>  arch/arm/mach-u8500/cache.c                |   37 +
>  arch/arm/mach-u8500/cpuinfo.c              |   25 +
>  board/ste/stemmy/Kconfig                   |   12 +
>  board/ste/stemmy/MAINTAINERS               |    6 +
>  board/ste/stemmy/Makefile                  |    2 +
>  board/ste/stemmy/README                    |   49 +
>  board/ste/stemmy/stemmy.c                  |   18 +
>  configs/stemmy_defconfig                   |   18 +
>  drivers/timer/Kconfig                      |    9 +
>  drivers/timer/Makefile                     |    1 +
>  drivers/timer/nomadik-mtu-timer.c          |  114 ++
>  include/configs/stemmy.h                   |   29 +
>  include/dt-bindings/arm/ux500_pm_domains.h |   15 +
>  include/dt-bindings/clock/ste-ab8500.h     |   12 +
>  include/dt-bindings/mfd/dbx500-prcmu.h     |   84 ++
>  27 files changed, 2290 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/dts/ste-ab8500.dtsi
>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/dts/ste-ab8505.dtsi
>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/dts/ste-dbx5x0-u-boot.dtsi
>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/dts/ste-dbx5x0.dtsi
>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/dts/ste-ux500-samsung-stemmy.dts
>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/mach-u8500/Kconfig
>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/mach-u8500/Makefile
>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/mach-u8500/cache.c
>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/mach-u8500/cpuinfo.c
>  create mode 100644 board/ste/stemmy/Kconfig
>  create mode 100644 board/ste/stemmy/MAINTAINERS
>  create mode 100644 board/ste/stemmy/Makefile
>  create mode 100644 board/ste/stemmy/README
>  create mode 100644 board/ste/stemmy/stemmy.c
>  create mode 100644 configs/stemmy_defconfig
>  create mode 100644 drivers/timer/nomadik-mtu-timer.c
>  create mode 100644 include/configs/stemmy.h
>  create mode 100644 include/dt-bindings/arm/ux500_pm_domains.h
>  create mode 100644 include/dt-bindings/clock/ste-ab8500.h
>  create mode 100644 include/dt-bindings/mfd/dbx500-prcmu.h
> 
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