On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 12:53 AM Russell King - ARM Linux admin
[off-list ref] wrote:

On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 09:56:42PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

quoted

For dove, the patches are basically what I had proposed back in
2015 when all other ARMv6/ARMv7 machines became part of a single
kernel build. I don't know what the state is mach-dove support is,
compared to the DT based support in mach-mvebu for the same
hardware. If they are functionally the same, we could also just
remove mach-dove rather than applying my patches.

Well, the good news is that I'm down to a small board support file
for the Dove Cubox now - but the bad news is, that there's still a
board support file necessary to support everything the Dove SoC has
to offer.

Even for a DT based Dove Cubox, I'm still using mach-dove, but it
may be possible to drop most of mach-dove now.  Without spending a
lot of time digging through it, it's impossible to really know.

Ok, so we won't remove it then, but I'd like to merge my patches to
at least get away from the special case of requiring a separate kernel
image for it.

Can you try if applying patches 12 and 14 from my series causes
problems for you? (it may be easier to apply the entire set
or pull from [1] to avoid rebase conflicts).

     Arnd

[1] kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/playground.git mach-cleanup-5.4