Re: [PATCH v6 1/4] soc: bcm2835: Sync xHCI reset firmware property with downstream

From: Florian Fainelli
Date: Sat Apr 04 2020 - 16:11:55 EST




On 4/2/2020 11:01 AM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 07:28:09PM +0100, Nicolas Saenz Julienne wrote:
>> The property is needed in order to trigger VL805's firmware load. Note
>> that there is a gap between the property introduced and the previous
>> one. This is also the case downstream.
>
> I don't know what "downstream" means, so I don't know what we're
> syncing *with*. If there's another branch or project we need to
> coordinate with, is there a name or URL that would help facilitate
> that? If not, I'm not sure what value that sentence adds.

Downstream here means the Raspberry Pi maintained kernel whose tree can
be found here:

https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/

Changes appear there first, and people like Nicolas and Stefan try to
get them upstream from that tree into Linus' tree.
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Florian