[PATCH RFC 00/11] Remove mach-kirkwood

Sebastian Hesselbarth sebastian.hesselbarth at gmail.com
Mon May 19 02:30:42 PDT 2014


On 05/19/2014 11:12 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday 16 May 2014 09:59:53 Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
>> Dear Arnd Bergmann,
>>
>> On Thu, 15 May 2014 16:36:35 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>
>>> There are three other series that may or may not make it into 3.16
>>> and that will have conflicts with this one:
>>>
>>> - remove mv78xx0
>>> - remove mach-dove
>>> - convert orion5x to multiplatform
>>
>> The work on Orion5x is still on-going. I'd like to progressively
>> continue the DT migration of Orion5x, moving to multiplatform, and then
>> once it's done, move into mach-mvebu. I'd appreciate to not rush things
>> more than necessary.
>
> Yes, that's fine. I'd just want to be sure we all understand what is
> going into 3.16 and what isn't.
>
> So your plan for now is to do DT support in 3.16 and multiplatform after
> 3.16? That won't have any conflicts with the kirkwood patches then, as
> far as I can tell.
>
> What about dove? Are we ready to remove it or do we give it another
> cycle?

I still have some pending fixes for mmc subsystem. The
ARCH_DOVE/MACH_DOVE patch didn't make it in, and I wasn't able
to get any mmc feedback on 2-3 pings. I'll do a proper RESEND
and see what happens.

So removing legacy dove will definitely _not_ happen for v3.16.

Sebastian




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