Thread (25 messages) 25 messages, 5 authors, 2015-07-19

[rtc-linux] Re: [1/2] RTC: Add core rtc support for Gemini Soc devices

From: Roman Yeryomin <hidden>
Date: 2015-05-06 16:29:51
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On 2015-05-06 12:53, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
On 06/05/2015 at 11:39:58 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote :
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On Saturday 02 May 2015 01:42:14 Alexandre Belloni wrote:
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Hi,

On 14/12/2010 at 16:08:26 +0100, Hans Ulli Kroll wrote :
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driver for the rtc device
on Cortina Systems CS3516 or StormlinkSemi SL3516 aka Gemini SoC

Signed-off-by: Hans Ulli Kroll <ulli.kroll@googlemail.com>
This driver has never been merged and the platform doesn't seem to be
active anymore. Is there still any interest in getting this driver
mainlined?

Only tree wide cleanups happened in mach-gemini since end of 2010, the
listed git repository (git://git.berlios.de/gemini-board) was on berliOS
(closed since 2011) and the sourceforge mirror seems empty. Is there
still interest in keeping that platform in the mainline?
As far as I know, the platform is still used by a number of people,
and is supported by OpenWRT. The reason we haven't seen updates is 
that
Ulli has been mostly absent from upstream development, and we haven't
had any other person step up as maintainer.

I have a patch to convert the platform to ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM, and
the code doesn't really get in the way otherwise.

As far as I'm concerned, we should just merge all the patches from
http://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt.git;a=tree;f=target/linux/gemini/patches-3.18

We should also try to find a maintainer that can respond to patches
in a timely manner. If Ulli has time for that again, that would be 
great,
otherwise I think we should find someone from OpenWRT to take over.
Thanks to point that, I'll merge that one which seems clean enough:
http://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt.git;a=blob;f=target/linux/gemini/files/drivers/rtc/rtc-gemini.c;h=587d8122b2fbb1230437eadcce4789a53aa60ee5;hb=4c637410a2a1ab45988e8ca6202554a502102039
For 3.18 (and up) to work on gemini 160-gemini-timers.patch is vital. 
Without that timers are broken and cpu is super slow.

Regards,
Roman

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