Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756621Ab3FGWI7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jun 2013 18:08:59 -0400 Received: from mail.free-electrons.com ([94.23.35.102]:52779 "EHLO mail.free-electrons.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752999Ab3FGWI5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jun 2013 18:08:57 -0400 Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2013 00:08:53 +0200 From: Maxime Ripard To: "luke.leighton" Cc: Thomas Petazzoni , Tomasz Figa , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, devicetree-discuss , Stephen Warren , Linux Kernel Mailing List , debian-arm@lists.debian.org, "jonsmirl@gmail.com" , Linux on small ARM machines , debian-kernel@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1)) Message-ID: <20130607220853.GR14209@lukather> References: <1370475609.20454.44.camel@localhost> <1733666.lHUBcfUXq9@flatron> <20130606112723.71ddd70c@skate> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2754 Lines: 65 On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 07:26:49PM +0100, luke.leighton wrote: > maxime: we need to talk :) > > please tell me in 4 or 5 sentences what you've managed to do so far, > expanding a little on what thomas says below, more specifically what > it achieves and/or allows rather than technically what it does > (suitable for managers and directors in other words), and what plans > you'd like to see happen. You mean something like http://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort ? You should really do a bit of research before starting a thread like this one. This webpage has been around for like 9 monthes now on the wiki of a community you pretend to represent (even though I fail to get how you can pretend such thing, but that's another topic). > > 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. > > great. which version did it first hit, i.e. what will the first > signs of this be when allwinner begin doing "git pulls"? 3.8, as shown in the wiki page > and which boards. bear in mind that one of those "boards" should > really be "the total range of products available across hundreds of > chinese tablet clone manufacturers". > > specific question: is one of the "boards" the one that tom cubie > submitted, which covers virtually every android tablet product > manufactured in the millions by chinese tablet clone manufacturers? Again, wiki. > > So isn't this entire discussion completely moot? > > no because it's totally in isolation from allwinner. i need to give > them a heads-up, and get them involved, giving them specific > incentives [which nobody's yet given!!] for following a particular > path [or paths] yet to be recommended. > > > The mainline support > > for sunxi has already started since 6 months or so, and has been Device > > Tree based from day one. > > to clarify: the *community-driven* mainline support for sunxi. ok - > which chips? sun3i (ARM9), sun4i (Cortex A8), sun5i, sun6i and sun7i > (Dual-Core Cortex A7)? which ones are in? A10, A13 for the moment. I just received hardware with A10s, A20 and A31 that I need to work on, but support should come quite soon. I already have some patches pending to be tested on an A31 board, but didn't have as much time as I wanted lately to actually set a proper environment to test them. Maxime -- 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/