Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751504AbbEFQ3v (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 May 2015 12:29:51 -0400 Received: from s1l1v.rtu.lv ([213.175.90.140]:35124 "EHLO mail.pbx.lv" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750930AbbEFQ3t (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 May 2015 12:29:49 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 504 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 06 May 2015 12:29:49 EDT To: Alexandre Belloni Subject: Re: [1/2] RTC: Add core rtc support for Gemini Soc devices MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 06 May 2015 19:21:21 +0300 From: Roman Yeryomin Cc: Arnd Bergmann , Hans Ulli Kroll , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rtc-linux@googlegroups.com, Linus Walleij , Russell King , Felix Fietkau In-Reply-To: <20150506095312.GU4276@piout.net> References: <1292339307-14336-2-git-send-email-ulli.kroll@googlemail.com> <20150501234214.GK12076@piout.net> <2694895.MomHLoCaoZ@wuerfel> <20150506095312.GU4276@piout.net> Message-ID: User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.0.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2316 Lines: 51 On 2015-05-06 12:53, Alexandre Belloni wrote: > On 06/05/2015 at 11:39:58 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote : >> On Saturday 02 May 2015 01:42:14 Alexandre Belloni wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > On 14/12/2010 at 16:08:26 +0100, Hans Ulli Kroll wrote : >> > > driver for the rtc device >> > > on Cortina Systems CS3516 or StormlinkSemi SL3516 aka Gemini SoC >> > > >> > > Signed-off-by: Hans Ulli Kroll >> > >> > This driver has never been merged and the platform doesn't seem to be >> > active anymore. Is there still any interest in getting this driver >> > mainlined? >> > >> > Only tree wide cleanups happened in mach-gemini since end of 2010, the >> > listed git repository (git://git.berlios.de/gemini-board) was on berliOS >> > (closed since 2011) and the sourceforge mirror seems empty. Is there >> > still interest in keeping that platform in the mainline? >> >> As far as I know, the platform is still used by a number of people, >> and is supported by OpenWRT. The reason we haven't seen updates is >> that >> Ulli has been mostly absent from upstream development, and we haven't >> had any other person step up as maintainer. >> >> I have a patch to convert the platform to ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM, and >> the code doesn't really get in the way otherwise. >> >> As far as I'm concerned, we should just merge all the patches from >> http://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt.git;a=tree;f=target/linux/gemini/patches-3.18 >> >> We should also try to find a maintainer that can respond to patches >> in a timely manner. If Ulli has time for that again, that would be >> great, >> otherwise I think we should find someone from OpenWRT to take over. >> > > Thanks to point that, I'll merge that one which seems clean enough: > http://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt.git;a=blob;f=target/linux/gemini/files/drivers/rtc/rtc-gemini.c;h=587d8122b2fbb1230437eadcce4789a53aa60ee5;hb=4c637410a2a1ab45988e8ca6202554a502102039 For 3.18 (and up) to work on gemini 160-gemini-timers.patch is vital. Without that timers are broken and cpu is super slow. Regards, Roman -- 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/