[GIT PULL] MCPM backend for VExpress TC2

Nicolas Pitre nicolas.pitre at linaro.org
Wed Jun 12 19:15:58 EDT 2013


On Wed, 12 Jun 2013, Olof Johansson wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 04:52:38PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > ARnd, Olof, please pull the following:
> > 
> >         git://git.linaro.org/people/nico/linux TC2
> > 
> > This is the MCPM backend submission for VExpress with a TC2 core tile.
> > This enables SMP secondary boot, CPU hotplug, and paves the way for 
> > cpuidle and cpufreq on this platform.
> > 
> > A big prerequisite for this support is the serial power controller 
> > driver posted by Lorenzo and extensively reviewed on the list.  Because 
> > of the strict dependency, we asked Samuel Ortiz twice for his ACK to 
> > merge it via ARM-SOC:
> > 
> > 	http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1506121
> > 
> > But no reply came back so far.  If Samuel had any issues with this 
> > driver I'm trusting he would have had ample time to express them at this 
> > point.  I'm therefore including it by default.
> 
> I just pinged Sam on IRC and he said he'll look at them shortly, so we'll wait
> for his review. They were, after all, only posted 2.5 weeks ago for the first
> time.

Public records show that Samuel is normally very responsive i.e. replies 
from him are sent in a matter of hours.  I concluded that he might just 
not be interested in highly vexpress specific code if 2.5 weeks have 
passed without a word.


Nicolas



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