+ Sebastian

On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 09:35:45AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

On Monday 21 July 2014 14:07:55 Brian Norris wrote:

quoted

I'm taking over the latest resubmission of this patch series.
There are a few moderate changes for v8 (noted below), but we
are waiting mostly for an Ack for the reboot driver.

This patchset contains the board support package for the
Broadcom BCM7445 ARM-based SoC [1]. These changes contain a
minimal set of code needed for a BCM7445-based board to boot
the Linux kernel.

These changes heavily leverage the OF/devicetree framework. The
machine is also built into the multi-platform ARMv7 image.

Changes are also available here:

  https://github.com/brcm/linux/tree/brcmstb-v8
  git://github.com/brcm/linux.git +brcmstb-v8

Whole series

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

Thanks!

I think we should try to get this merged into 3.17, it's already
taken too long and the patches look good.

Yes, it's about time.

Please add the core architecture patches for arch/arm into Russell's
patch tracker http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/patches/.

OK, that's unfamiliar to me, but I'll try that out.

For the platform changes in the first patch, I would prefer to have
Matt pick up the first patch, but we can also apply it directly into
arm-soc if he prefers that.

That brings up a question related to PATCH 11 in the series (MAINTAINERS
update); who will be maintaining arch/arm/mach-bcm/*brcmstb*, and how
will code go upstream? It seems like Matt and Christian are officially
mach-bcm maintainers, although I don't know if Christian is still
involved.

Also, BCM7xxx shares little in common with the rest of mach-bcm, except
a company name, so we'd really like at least the 'Maintainer' entries
for the CC. I was planning on a separate git tree too, although it could
have conflicts if we touch arch/arm/mach-bcm/{Makefile,Kconfig}.

So would we send a separate arm-soc pull request for the arm-soc
targeted changes (and all future development)?

The reset driver can ideally go through the drivers/power/ maintainers,
but if they are not interested in merging it, we can also take that
through arm-soc.

I don't see much activity from the drivers/power/ maintainers on the
mailing lists, and I know David Woodhouse at least has been severely
distracted (I took over for him on driver/mtd/ recently), so I don't
expect much. (EDIT: I see [1]. Nice!)

See also my one comment on that driver.

I proposed an additional diff on that patch in response.

I can strip the drivers/power/reboot/ driver out and send it separately
to our new drivers/power/ maintainer (thanks Sebastian!), and hope that
it gets through for 3.17.

For the reset of mach-bcm stuff, I'll just send an arm-soc pull request
soon enough, unless Matt/Arnd/Olof object.

Thanks,
Brian

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/7/16/539