[PATCH v3 0/11] Add R8A7743/SK-RZG1M board support

Simon Horman horms at verge.net.au
Thu Oct 20 02:24:59 PDT 2016


On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 11:29:56AM +0300, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> On 10/12/2016 11:09 AM, Simon Horman wrote:
> 
> >>>  Here's the set of 11 patches against Simon Horman's 'renesas.git' repo's
> >>>'renesas-devel-20161003-v4.8' tag. I'm adding the device tree support for
> >>>the R8A7743-based SK-RZG1M board. The SoC is close to R8A7791 and the board
> >>>seems identical to the R8A7791/Porter board. The device tree patches depend on
> >>>the R8A7743 CPG/MSSR driver series just posted in order to compile and work.
> >>
> >>   Forgot to mention that this version causes a regression with the sh_eth
> >>driver (well, actually with phylib): since IRQC now gets a deferred probing,
> >>PHY IRQ doesn't work anymore -- phylib falls back to polling.
> >
> >Is there a resolution to that problem?
> 
>    Geert has posted his IRQC driver patch recently. Not sure if it was
> intended for merging but it solves the issue.

Ok. I think it is ok to merge support for a new board even if there are
problems as its not regressing (can't break something that previously
didn't exist imho). But of course it would be best if things did work.

Geert, do you have any comments on the relevance of your IRQC driver patch?



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