[PATCH 5/6] ARM: dove: Remove watchdog from DT
Arnd Bergmann
arnd at arndb.de
Mon Oct 8 16:10:13 EDT 2012
On Monday 08 October 2012, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > Arnaud Patard pointed out this conversation to me. I added Orion and
> > Kirkwood support to Debian.
>
> I used your guide at http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/qnap/
> to convert my QNAP-119P+ over to Debian. Works great.
>
> > If someone volunteers to keep the Orion code up-to-date and/or port it
> > to DT, I can perform tests from time to time. I have the following
> > Orion devices: QNAP TS-209, QNAP TS-409, HP mv2120 and D-Link DNS-323.
>
> At the moment Kirkwood is my priority, but i think we should have most
> of it converted to DT in the next three months. Once that is over, i
> can look at Orion5x.
>
> It is great you offered to test. I have a Marvell orion5x reference
> system, rd88f5182. So i can do a lot of the conversion using
> that. What i think will cause problems is PCI. There is scary looking
> PCI code in the -setup.c files. I don't know how easy that will be to
> convert to DT. However, it looks like most targets don't actually use
> PCI, so maybe some will be easier to convert than others.
I can offer some help with the PCI bits. I don't have any orion hardware,
but if you get stuck, you can find me on IRC or we can talk on the phone
about how it should be done.
Arnd
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