Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] zynq subarch cleanups

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Wed Oct 24 2012 - 08:09:53 EST


On Wednesday 24 October 2012, Josh Cartwright wrote:
> Things have been relatively quiet on the Zynq front lately. This patchset does
> a bit of cleanup of the Zynq subarchitecture. It was the necessary set of
> things I had to do to get a zynq target booting with the upstream qemu model.
>
> Patches 1 and 2 move zynq to use the GIC and pl310 L2 cache controller device
> tree mappings respectively.
>
> Patch 3 removes unused clock infrastructure. the plan is to rework the
> out-of-tree Xilinx generic clk support into something suitable for merging.
> What's in tree now just isn't used at all, and can be removed.
>
> Patch 4 and 5 move around the static peripheral mappings into the vmalloc area.

Looks all good to me now.

>
> I intentionally did not Cc stable on patch 5, even though you had
> suggested otherwise. I do not think it will apply cleanly to the stable
> trees independent of the other patches. Additionally, with the current
> state of zynq upstream, I'm not convinced there would be enough users to
> make it worth the effort.

Ok, fair enough.

> Additionally, I've left the SCU static mapping around, even though its
> currently unused. We'll eventually need it around (maybe in a different form)
> when SMP support is added.

Right.

John, are you going to pick up these patches and send a pull request?

Arnd
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