[GIT PULL 1/7] Broadcom soc changes for 4.12

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Thu Mar 30 08:29:47 PDT 2017


On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 6:58 PM, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com> wrote:
> The following changes since commit c1ae3cfa0e89fa1a7ecc4c99031f5e9ae99d9201:
>
>   Linux 4.11-rc1 (2017-03-05 12:59:56 -0800)
>
> are available in the git repository at:
>
>   http://github.com/Broadcom/stblinux.git tags/arm-soc/for-4.12/soc
>
> for you to fetch changes up to d47b51ad31e21ab8129da64d42e2fc48e7a215eb:
>
>   ARM: brcmstb: Add entry for 7260 (2017-03-15 14:57:50 -0700)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> This pull request contains Broadcom ARM-based SoC Kconfig/platform changes for
> 4.12, please pull the following:
>
> - Al enables ZONE_DMA for BRCMSTB platforms since a bunch of on-chip
>   peripherals such as USB (OHCI and EHCI) and SDHCI cannot support physical
>   addresses > 32-bit. This is only required when ARM_LPAE is enabled
>
> - Danesh enables ARCH_HAS_HOLES_MEMORYMODEL in order for the kernel to provide
>   a pfn_valid() implementation despite BRCMSTB enabling the SPARSEMEM model by
>   default.
>
> - Florian adds support for a new 28nm generation chip: 7260 by updating the
>   runtime detection UART debuggin stub used for DEBUG_LL.
>

I tried pulling this, but github appears to be particularly slow today, so
I deferred all your branches for the moment. We'll get there.

       Arnd



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