[PATCHv2 00/10] ARM: sunxi: Architecture cleanups and rework

Maxime Ripard maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com
Fri Apr 5 13:17:55 EDT 2013


Le 02/04/2013 20:31, Olof Johansson a écrit :
> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 10:20:15AM +0100, Maxime Ripard wrote:
>> Hi Mike,
>>
>> Le 26/03/2013 10:13, Maxime Ripard a écrit :
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> This patchset is a serie of various cleanups and reworks in the sunxi
>>> architecture to prepare a clean landing for the next Allwinner SoC, the
>>> A31 (sun6i).
>>>
>>> The A31 is significantly different from the previous Allwinner SoC we
>>> supported, the A10 and A13, to no longer make the generic sunxi prefix
>>> we used in most compatible string relevant, while it should really have
>>> been sun4i in the first place.
>>>
>>> This set is also the occasion to cleanup the timer and irq code by
>>> switching to the recently introduced clocksource and irqchip
>>> infrastructures.
>>>
>>> This set depends on the UART patches I sent previously.
>>
>> I was meaning to take this branch, but some of the drivers changes in it
>> depends on the clock patches that Emilio sent and that are in clk-next.
>> Is it ok to merge clk-next into my branch?
> 
> All of of a <subsystem>-next branch is usually asking for trouble, since it'll
> cause all sorts of pain if the other maintianer is rebasing his for-next
> branch.
> 
> Best is to get those patches on just a minimal topic branch (that is still
> bisectable) that is shared between the trees.
> 
> Mike?

Mike, could you comment on that? I'd very much like to see this patches
come into 3.10.

Maxime


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