[PATCH 0/4] ARM: kirkwood: fdt: convert kirkwood init funcs to fdt

Jason jason at lakedaemon.net
Thu Mar 1 15:01:36 EST 2012


On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 07:50:51PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 01 March 2012, Jason Cooper wrote:
> > This series begins the process of converting all of the drivers initialized
> > from kirkwood_init() to devicetree.
> > 
> > The first patch cleans up kirkwood_init() by moving a flag setting to it's
> > appropriate location.  This will help later when converting the audio driver.
> > 
> > Next, I pull the functionality of kirkwood_init() into kirkwood_dt_init() in
> > board-dt.c  This way, as drivers are converted, their init calls can be removed
> > from kirkwood_dt_init() and non-fdt users won't be affected (they call
> > kirkwood_init()).
> > 
> > Last, I converted the two easiest drivers, rtc and wdt.  The xor and crypto
> > drivers remain for a later patch series.
> 
> Hi Jason,
> 
> Nice patch series! I've commented on a few details that need improving, but
> it seems you're making good progress overall. Note that in other platforms,
> we typically focus on converting all the devices outside of the soc first,
> because that lets us get away from board files faster, but there is nothing
> wrong in principle in converting the devices on the soc as well.

Thanks for the feedback.  I'll redo this series and resubmit.  Did you
catch my patch from yesterday?

[PATCH v3] ARM: kirkwood: covert orion-spi to fdt. [1]

thx,

Jason.

[1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg161975.html
> 
> 	Arnd
> 
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