[PATCH v5 0/7] irqchip: Move OMAP{4,5}/DRA7 to use stacked domains

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Mon Feb 23 16:11:45 PST 2015


* Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com> [150223 15:10]:
> * Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com> [150223 09:48]:
> > This series is extracted from [4], which is trying to remove all
> > traces of gic_arch_extn from the tree. As some maintainers are more
> > responsive than others (understatement of the year...), I've decided
> > to split it per sub-arch, and get it moving, at least partially.
> > 
> > This series addresses OMAP{4,5} by converting the WUGEN to stacked
> > domains. The DRA7 crossbar gets the same treatment.
> > 
> > It is worth realizing that:
> > 
> > - I haven't been able to test this as much as I would have wanted to
> >   (it's only been tested on omap4 and omap5).
> > 
> > - This actively *breaks* existing setups. Once you boot a new kernel
> >   with an old DT, suspend/resume *will* be broken. Old kernels on a
> >   new DT won't even boot! You've been warned. This really outline the
> >   necessity of actually describing the HW in device trees...
> 
> Could we parse still the old binding and produce warning for the
> case when a new kernel is booted with the old DT? That would make
> it easier for people to debug what's going on.

Other than that, this series seems to behave for me. Please feel
free to add Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com>. It Looks
like this series should be applied into an immutable branch
against v4.0-rc1 that I can pull in as needed to avoid merge
conflicts with the dts files.

Regards,

Tony



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