[PATCH 1/2] ARM: add basic support for the Broadcom BCM2835 SoC

Stephen Warren swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Fri Jun 22 12:23:07 EDT 2012


On 06/21/2012 11:05 PM, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
> 
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 16:26:56 -0600, Stephen Warren
> <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
>> On 06/06/2012 11:45 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
>>> This SoC is used in the Raspberry Pi, for example.
>>>
>>> Initial support is enough to boot to a serial console, and execute a
>>> minimal set of U-Boot commands. No drivers are implemented. For more
>>> details, see http://www.broadcom.com/products/BCM2835 or
>>> http://www.raspberrypi.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/BCM2835-ARM-Peripherals.pdf.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org>
>>
>> Albert, per your request to remind you about patches in your backlog,
>> there is this series.
> 
> I've marked the series as assigned to me and under review. IIUC, it is
> from June 7, so after the merge window closing, and will thus get in the
> next branch.

OK, great.

>> BTW, I expect quite a few more patches to come in for the RPi; I
>> already have a bunch of small tweaks queued up and I know there's a
>> USB driver that works and hopefully will be sent soon. Should I be
>> sending pull requests for these instead to ease your work? Do you
>> take pull requests from git repos not on denx.de?
>>
>> Thanks.
> 
> I am sorry, I will not take in pull requests from any other repo than a
> custodian's one. Please point me to individual patches -- ideally as
> patchwork URLS.

I haven't yet posted any patches other than the two you've assigned as
mentioned above; I was waiting for those two to be merged first. Perhaps
I should set up a custodian git repo to house them.



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