[PATCH 1/6 v12] ARM: Add basic architecture support for VIA/WonderMedia 85xx SoC's

Alexey Charkov alchark at gmail.com
Fri Jan 14 20:13:48 EST 2011


<previous response went off-list by mistake, sorry for that>

2011/1/15 Russell King - ARM Linux <linux at arm.linux.org.uk>:
> On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 03:53:56AM +0300, Alexey Charkov wrote:
>> 2010/12/28 Alexey Charkov <alchark at gmail.com>:
>> > 2010/12/23 Alexey Charkov <alchark at gmail.com>:
>> >> This adds support for the family of Systems-on-Chip produced initially
>> >> by VIA and now its subsidiary WonderMedia that have recently become
>> >> widespread in lower-end Chinese ARM-based tablets and netbooks.
>> >>
>> >> Support is included for both VT8500 and WM8505, selectable by a
>> >> configuration switch at kernel build time.
>> >>
>> >> Included are basic machine initialization files, register and
>> >> interrupt definitions, support for the on-chip interrupt controller,
>> >> high-precision OS timer, GPIO lines, necessary macros for early debug,
>> >> pulse-width-modulated outputs control, as well as platform device
>> >> configurations for the specific drivers implemented elsewhere.
>> >>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Alexey Charkov <alchark at gmail.com>
>> >
>> > Russell, will you take this for .38? Please note that the last
>> > revision of this patch was also submitted to the ARM Linux patch
>> > tracking system:
>> >
>> > http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/patches/viewpatch.php?id=6597/1
>> >
>> > Best regards,
>> > Alexey
>> >
>>
>> Russell, I realize that there are quite a lot of other things to worry
>> about currently in the ARM Linux world, but could you please still
>> consider merging this patch before .38 window closes?
>
> It got lost in the patch system in the middle of the SPEAR deluge -
> and after that deluge I did say on list that it would result in things
> being missed.  I've basically been ignoring everything in there since
> beyond the top few newest entries.
>
> In any case, I believe it's too late in this merge window with only
> four days left to start merging large amounts of code.  I'd get
> moaned at by Linus.  Sorry.
>

Ok, life is life. Could you then please take these to your tree for .39?

Best regards,
Alexey



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