[PATCH] RFT: ARM: gemini: convert to GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS

[Linus Walleij]

On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 October 2013, Linus Walleij wrote:
>> This converts the gemini machine to use generic clockevents
>> by rewriting the timer driver.
>
> I've put a few more people on Cc that I think have access to hardware, according
> to the openwrt changelog for gemini.

Thanks, if the fine OpenWRT folks can suggest a cheapo piece of equipment
that is fully supported by OpenWRT and that I can eBay to test my patches on
my own I'm all ears.

> I've suggested removing the platform before, but got the feedback that it's
> actively maintained in openwrt. Unfortunately we didn't get much
> activity to upstream the patches from
> http://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt.git;a=tree;f=target/linux/gemini/patches
> which are apparently required.

Both with OpenWRT and OpenEmbedded we are seeing this forking
instead of working with actively upstreaming and reducing the patch
stack. This is not so nice, we need to discuss what can be done to
reduce the patch stacks carried by other Open Source projects such
as these.

> Rather than deleting the platform entirely, I'd be more inclined to accept
> any cleanup patches like yours, testing or not, and let the downstream
> users deal with fixing it up if it breaks. The ideal case of course would
> be for someone to actively maintain the platform again and submit any patches
> that are needed.

Yeah :-/

As with any other platform with an active community interested in
long-term support it'd be best if someone stepped up to do
the necessary conversion to DT and maybe also multiplatform
(no idea if that works with the FA526 CPU though) so we can get
the maintenance burden down for everone involved.

I suggested project like this for the advanced kernel newbies
actually... let's see if it takes hold.

Yours,
Linus Walleij