[PATCH 0/5 v2] mv643xx_eth: device tree bindings

Ben Hutchings ben at decadent.org.uk
Sun Apr 14 23:07:14 EDT 2013


On Sat, 2013-04-13 at 15:00 -0400, Jason Cooper wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 05:21:26PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> > Dear Jason Cooper,
> > 
> > On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:53:03 -0400, Jason Cooper wrote:
> > 
> > > With this and Thomas' pci series, we will have Kirkwood fully
> > > converted to devicetree, can begin removing board files, and finally
> > > begin migrating everything over to mach-mvebu/.  This will lead to
> > > the removal of five directories under arch/arm/ (plat-orion,
> > > mach-kirkwood, mach-orion5x, mach-dove, and mach-mv78xx0).
> > 
> > No, we can't remove mach-orion5x and mach-mv78xx0 for now, they have
> > not been converted at all in terms of gpio/pinmux support. I've started
> > writing some pinmux code for orion5x but it's not ready.
[...]
> Also, I have a feeling that not all legacy boards will get converted
> over.  If there is no interest or no way to test, certains boards may
> get deprecated.

Debian supports many Kirkwood and Orion 5x systems.  A call for testing
on the debian-arm at lists.debian.org list might be worthwhile.

I would be very glad to see kirkwood, orion5x and mv78xx0 merged - we
build natively and this takes about 8 hours for each configuration.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
The first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club.
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