Re: Old platforms: bring out your dead

Hi Linus,

On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 4:20 AM Linus Walleij [off-list ref] wrote:

On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 3:45 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
[off-list ref] wrote:
That said there are a three things that people should really be doing if they
want to keep their pet archs/subarchs around as good community
members, and they are in essence to:

2. Migrate existing drivers to newly appeared and
    appropriate subsystems (I think there are some hacky heartbeat LED
    drivers down in arch/* for example) there is also the feature matrix
    core maintainers like and which appears if you type
    Documentation/features/list-arch.sh <archname>
    would be nice if you work on them if you can support them!
    Or at least take a look.

The choir is listening ;-)

For Amiga, that would require writing a real GPIO driver (modifying
gpio-mmio?) for the CIAs, and converting its users (amiflop, amijoy,
amimouse, parport_amiga, amiserial, and dmasound_paula) from direct CIA
register access to GPIO access (mctrl_gpio for amiserial)).
Note that the heartbeat LED is shared by heartbeat and audio.

An interim solution might be to just write a simple gpio driver for the
single CIA pin driving the heartbeat LED, allowing the user to set up
ledtrig-heartbeat.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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