[PATCH 3/6] ARM: remove fa526 CPU support

[Imre Kaloz]

On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 11:35:45 +0100, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:

> On Tuesday 19 March 2013, Imre Kaloz wrote:
>> I have two wbd111 boards, but their bootloader is fubared - for whatever
>> reason the bootloader's ethernet support works horribly for me, as in an
>> image transfer takes well over 10 mins, and 90% of the time it fails
>> meantime. I have another gemini based board, which doesn't have mainline
>> support, yet.
>>
>> So for gemini, what I can offer is digging up the wbd111 and testing your
>> patches this weekend - if that works, it can stay in mainline for another
>> kernel release, and I can try to add support for the other board (so
>> there would be a sane platform to test on). If you are going to drop it,
>> I will likely keep it working in OpenWrt as long as those boards don't
>> die on me.
>
> Sounds good. If you are still interested in keeping the code alive, we
> shouldn't drop it upstream. Can you also add a defconfig file that
> enables all the gemini specific Kconfig code plus whatever you use
> in OpenWRT?
>
> Part of the reason why the platform was so broken is that it never had
> a defconfig, and we didn't notice the bitrot.

Sure, I'll try to get all of this done this weekend.


Imre