[PATCH 00/51] some more imx patches for 2.6.38

Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Thu Nov 18 02:37:41 EST 2010


Hello Shawn,

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 09:56:20AM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
> Hi Uwe,
> 
> 2010/11/18 Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Some of the patches in this series are already in Sascha's tree, I
> > resend them because several of them got minor fixes.
> >
> > The highlights are that for most devices for i.MX1, i.MX21, i.MX25 and
> > i.MX27 are allocated dynamically which reduces the memory footprint of
> > the kernel.  Moreover I moved support for i.MX25 to mach-imx targeting a
> > multi-SoC-kernel for i.MX.
> >
> > Later I want to do the same for mx3.  I'm not sure about mx5 though.
> > The discussion about integrating support for i.MX28 into mach-imx made
> > me questioning if this is sensible.  Well, we'll see.
> >
> You are moving mach-mx25 into mach-imx, will do the same for mx3, and
> thinking about the same for mx5. But you are asking me to move mx28
> out of mach-imx.  This only makes sense for me if you think mx28 will
> not go into mach-imx forever.  Are you sure about this? Otherwise we
> are doing something really bothering ourselves.
Yes, I think i.MX28 will never fit into mach-imx.

Uwe

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