[PATCH V2 0/3] Add vchi_queue_kernel_message and vchi_queue_user_message

[Michael Zoran]

On Wed, 2017-01-25 at 08:53 -0800, Michael Zoran wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-01-25 at 06:23 -0800, Michael Zoran wrote:
> > On Wed, 2017-01-25 at 17:12 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > > > Again, that's not my decision.  I can go either way.  But if
> > > > the
> > > > decision was made to delete it, I think the 4.10 version should
> > > > also be
> > > > deleted because the same logic applies.  Nothing uses it 4.10
> > > > either
> > > > and 4.10 is still an RC.
> > > 
> > > Nah.  No rush.  We can delete it in another kernel release or two
> > > if
> > > we
> > > can't figure out the issue.
> > > 
> > > Let's first figure out why the other code hasn't been
> > > upstreamed. 
> > > You
> > > must have at least looked at it to be sending these patches.  Do
> > > you
> > > know what the story is?
> > 
> > No, not really.  Some of it may simply be that nobody has taken the
> > time to upstream them.
> > 
> > Some of it my be the nature of the RPI which is fundamentially(at
> > least
> > the history of it), a toy.  Either for children or people that want
> > to
> > tinker with things.  So some of the downstream code doesn't always
> > follow all the rules that upstream drivers would.  Because like I
> > said
> > at least historically, it's a toy.
> > 
> > I have submitted some small changes to the drivers that hook into
> > vc04_services mostly for HDMI audio.   But it's only small
> > changes...
> > 
> > Like I said, my goal here was simply to get ARM64 to work on the
> > RPI3
> > and HDMI audio was important to me.   And vc04_services was
> > necessary
> 
> So Greg/Dan/Eric:
> 
> Have we come to any conclusion on how things are going to proceed
> with
> this driver?
> 
> If you want to upstream the other drivers, that's fine by me.  In my
> spare time I'll try to submit improvements to them.  But at the same
> time, I didn't upstream vc04_services, so I don't see why the burden
> or
> decision to upstream the other drivers should necessarily fall on
> me.  
> I didn't write any of these drivers...  I'm just some guy that's
> trying
> to submit improvements to them specifically for ARM64...
> 

BTW, if you're interested in upstreaming the other drivers they are
available on the RPI kernel github tree at:

http://www.github.com/raspberrypi/linux

Or you can get the rest of the drivers from whoever submitted the
initial patch for vc04_services.