On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 9:37 PM, Josh Boyer <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Nicolas Chauvet <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I need few commits scheduled for 3.14 to be backported into 3.13 Fedora >> kernel. > > As helpful as we try to be, we are not a backporting service. If you > would like to see something backported to a particular Fedora release > or kernel version, the best way to do that would be to work with the > Fedora ARM group and send patches. Normally that means you're also > signing up to provide the support for the patches you're submitting. > >> This is needed to fully support the Toshiba AC100 device on Fedora ARM. >> I haven't found the ref for some swarren commit, but they are marked as >> APPLIED, so they will probably hit linux-next soon. >> >> - Select the right RTC >> linux-next: 553c0a200e2082686fd9b829b77f7df6ebae14e9 >> >> - Simple-panel driver >> linux-next: 280921de7241ee63184c8baa89ec3fe0122dedb3 >> linux-next: 210fcd9d9cf1ad6ebfae3b46b457e602c8f8cdc2 >> http://nv-tegra.nvidia.com/gitweb/?p=user/swarren/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=265b11fec37d23ce0aa56adb8e5fc06a87a6ab47 >> http://nv-tegra.nvidia.com/gitweb/?p=user/swarren/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=0f63b786cc8bc0dfbbb871ebf5f08fba1233ce1b >> >> Adds: DRM_PANEL boot and DRM_PANEL_SIMPLE tristate >> > > I'm hesitant to add an entirely new driver as a backport. Not hugely > so, but given that it's only been in linux-next I have no idea how > much it's been tested. > >> - Misc fix >> http://nv-tegra.nvidia.com/gitweb/?p=user/swarren/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=42a5369479562e8dd8d96ece856163cebbeb2510 >> >> I plan to use a rawhidenodebug repo to compose a fedora 20 remix. >> Then hopefully everything should be in for fedora 21. > > Is there a reason you can't wait for F21 and a 3.14 kernel then? > We're doing something similar to what you're requesting with the > AllWinner devices that Hans has been supporting but waiting for the > 3.14 merge window to start. I'd strongly suggest going that route and > working with the ARM SIG as they're in the middle of working out their > hardware support story.
I would prefer we wait until it lands upstream. If it was a device which was widely available such as the BeagleBone or Wandboard I would consider it but unfortunately the AC100 is a somewhat corner case device which I personally don't believe is worth the pain and can be maintained via a remix. Don't get me wrong, I would love to support this device upstream eventually, I have one myself, but if we start doing it for a device here and a device there we're suddenly carrying 100 patches before we know it and it's unmaintainable. Peter _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel
