[GIT PULL] omap legacy boot vs dt boot fixes for v4.7 merge window

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Mon May 9 07:41:46 PDT 2016


On Wednesday 04 May 2016 10:31:53 Tony Lindgren wrote:
> Legacy booting vs device tree booting fixes for omaps for
> v4.7 merge window. These are not considered urgent fixes enough
> for the v4.6-rc cycle, but we need them in v4.7 in order to drop
> the last remaining board-*.c files for omap3 for v4.8 merge window.
> 
> On Nokia N900, we need to pass the MMC slot names for the legacy
> user space to work. Let's do that using auxdata as the driver is
> setting up things already with the pdata for legacy booting. Then
> we can later on discuss if we may want to have some generic binding
> describing where the MMC slots are on the device.
> 
> N900 also has had the ir-rx51 device driver unusable with multiarch
> for a long time. Let's pass the dmtimer data in pdata for the driver
> to get it going again. Then once things are working, we can eventually
> change the driver to use just hrtimer and PWM framework. The driver
> changes will be queued separately.
> 

Good plan, merged it into next/fixes-non-critical, thanks!

	Arnd



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