Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755797Ab3FFKCN (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jun 2013 06:02:13 -0400 Received: from mail-bk0-f45.google.com ([209.85.214.45]:40071 "EHLO mail-bk0-f45.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753782Ab3FFKCL (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jun 2013 06:02:11 -0400 From: Tomasz Figa To: Thomas Petazzoni Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, devicetree-discuss , Stephen Warren , "luke.leighton" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , debian-arm@lists.debian.org, "jonsmirl@gmail.com" , Linux on small ARM machines , debian-kernel@lists.debian.org, Maxime Ripard Subject: Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1)) Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 12:02:06 +0200 Message-ID: <3628961.Gph977QOV0@flatron> User-Agent: KMail/4.10.4 (Linux/3.9.4-gentoo; KDE/4.10.4; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20130606112723.71ddd70c@skate> References: <1733666.lHUBcfUXq9@flatron> <20130606112723.71ddd70c@skate> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1426 Lines: 38 Hi Thomas, On Thursday 06 of June 2013 11:27:23 Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Dear Tomasz Figa, > > On Thu, 06 Jun 2013 02:01:14 +0200, Tomasz Figa wrote: > > I don't see any other solution here than moving all the Allwinner > > code to DT (as it has been suggested in this thread several times > > already), as this is the only hardware description method supported > > by ARM Linux. > > Have you noticed that it is already the case in mainline? My colleague > Maxime Ripard (Cc'ed) is the maintainer of the mainline Allwinner sunxi > effort. It already supports a number of boards, has a pinctrl driver, a > GPIO driver, serial port is working, network is working, I2C is > working. > > All in mainline, completely Device Tree based. > > So isn't this entire discussion completely moot? The mainline support > for sunxi has already started since 6 months or so, and has been Device > Tree based from day one. Sure, I've been observing the development of sunxi support since it started. This is the reason why any remaining Allwinner drivers must be converted to use DT instead of this proprietary stuff as well, if they want to upstream any of them. Best regards, Tomasz -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/