[GIT PULL] Amlogic SoC updates for v4.15

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 10:52 PM, Martin Blumenstingl
<martin.blumenstingl at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi Arnd,
>
> On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 11:26 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 5:43 PM, Kevin Hilman <khilman at baylibre.com> wrote:
>>
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>>> Amlogic SoC updates for v4.15
>>> - add SMP support to Meson8/8b
>>
>> Pulled into next/soc. For my understanding, could you clarify what
>> this line is needed for on meson?
>>
>> +textofs-$(CONFIG_ARCH_MESON) := 0x00208000
> this was already part of Carlo's version of the SMP patches. I didn't
> question this change (I simply assumed that it's relevant - I never
> questioned "why" it was relevant) so far
> however, that was until Linus Lüssing (CC'ed) investigated a
> bug-report from Emiliano Ingrassia (also CC'ed). you can find his
> results here: [0]
> (tl;dr: kernel refuses to boot without this change when using a
> slightly modified multi_v7_defconfig)
>
> Linus even asked me to split this change out into a separate patch [1]
> however, by the time I came back home Kevin already sent out the pull request
>
> please let me know if
> - we can keep the patches the way they are right now
> - or if you want to separate this change into a separate patch
>

I think it's good enough to keep it this time, especially now that your
explanation is in the mailing list archives. If you get into a similar
situation again, splitting up the patch is better though.

     Arnd