Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] arm64, thunder: Enable Cavium Thunder SoC Family

From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Tue Sep 23 2014 - 07:21:21 EST


On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 11:46:41AM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 11:41:22AM +0100, Robert Richter wrote:
> > On 12.09.14 19:49:43, Robert Richter wrote:
> > > From: Robert Richter <rrichter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > This initial patches enable Cavium Thunder SoC Family. The patches add
> > > devicetree and Kconfig support and then add Thunder to the defconfig.
> > >
> > > The Thunder system needs more enablement patches for subsystems and
> > > devices, this includes network, ahci, gicv3/gicv3-its, pci, smmu, kvm.
> > > We will send separate patch sets for these. All of them base on this
> > > initial patches.
> > >
> > > I sent a separate patch set independently that introduces support for
> > > dts vendor subdirs. After both patch sets have been applied I will
> > > send a patch in addition that moves the dts file into a subdirectory.
> > >
> > > I sent another separate patch that sets NR_CPUS to 64 per default.
> > >
> > > The first patch introduces dts files without having a Kconfig option
> > > for the soc (ARCH_THUNDER). However, this is introduced in patch 3 and
> > > added to defconfig in patch 4 as this is my preferred solution. If
> > > there is still resistance having an ARCH_THUNDER option, just drop
> > > them.
> > >
> > > Patches are available here:
> > >
> > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rric/linux.git thunder/init
> >
> > it would be good if these patches could be applied.
>
> Catalin's handling the 3.18 merge window, but this looks like arm-soc
> material anyway and should go via Olof/Arnd.

Yes. Olof said he's cherry-picking arm64 SoC patches (or Robert could
send him a pull request).

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Catalin
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