Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-05 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 10:52:37AM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2016-07-05 at 10:07 +0200, Mark Brown wrote: > > We're getting to the point where there's a fairly pressing need for > > arm64 - the more useful hardware is starting to get a wider distribution >

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-05 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 07:05:42PM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2016-07-04 at 14:01 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > A lot of arm64 machine users would benefit from this, and maybe owners > > of very recent amd64 machines too, with better support for things on > > the Skylake platform. Th

Re: I/O issues with writing to mtdblock devices on kirkwood

2016-01-13 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 11:41:45PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Tuesday 12 January 2016 22:00:58 Mark Brown wrote: > > There's also the potential for the overhead from interrupts to be worse > > than the overhead for busy waiting, but given how badly we're coping n

Re: I/O issues with writing to mtdblock devices on kirkwood

2016-01-12 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 10:49:57PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > I see in the Armada 370 datasheet that the controller actually supports an > interrupt driven mode, which should be much better in principle than blocking > the CPU during the entire transfer. There may of course be a good reason > w

Re: I/O issues with writing to mtdblock devices on kirkwood

2016-01-12 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 05:29:40PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Tuesday 12 January 2016 02:19:04 Andrew Lunn wrote: > > When i played with this, i added a reschedule point at the end of the > > drivers transfer_one_message() function, to see if that would help. It > > did not, which is why i m

Re: I/O issues with writing to mtdblock devices on kirkwood

2016-01-11 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 02:19:04AM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote: > When i played with this, i added a reschedule point at the end of the > drivers transfer_one_message() function, to see if that would help. It > did not, which is why i made a guess it has something to do with a > lock. The SPI core d

Re: I/O issues with writing to mtdblock devices on kirkwood

2016-01-11 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 12:43:37AM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote: > I've done a little testing. What appears to happen is that while the > cat file > /dev/mtdblockX is going on, all access to filesystems on > SATA are blocked. I set off a "find ." and it busily prints > filenames. But as soon as i star

Re: I/O issues with writing to mtdblock devices on kirkwood

2016-01-11 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 04:07:21PM -0800, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Mark Brown [2016-01-11 23:22]: I've just noticed that you're asking about the kernel SPI subsystem on the Debian ARM list, please don't do things like this - please include the kernel community, you'll b

Re: I/O issues with writing to mtdblock devices on kirkwood

2016-01-11 Thread Mark Brown
/dev/mtdblockX worked fine on a 2 MB flash partition but > resulted in SATA timeouts on a 9 MB flash partition. > flascp file /dev/mtd2 works fine. > I've now bisected it down to this change: > commit 0461a4149836c792d186027c8c859637a4cfb11a > Author: Mark Brown >

Re: ARM kernel config for Linux 3.11

2013-10-04 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 10:11:47AM +0200, Arnaud Patard wrote: > exynos in armmp won't happen anytime soon unless you bug upstream about > multiplatform support. iirc, even in -next, it's still not possible to > enable exynos in multiplatform builds. It does mostly work with mainline, audio still

Re: Build failure for armhf/armmp, linux 3.11-rc4

2013-08-19 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 01:39:40AM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2013-08-19 at 11:41 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > Could you be more specific as to what you believe the problem that > > exists is? You mentioned that the kernel would be tainted but that > > doesn'

Re: Build failure for armhf/armmp, linux 3.11-rc4

2013-08-19 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 06:25:44PM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Fri, 2013-08-16 at 11:34 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > Please use the advertised e-mail addresses for maintainers. > Expand, please? I took your address from the commit that Robert pointed > out. You

Re: Build failure for armhf/armmp, linux 3.11-rc4

2013-08-16 Thread Mark Brown
On 16 August 2013 09:42, Ben Hutchings wrote: Please use the advertised e-mail addresses for maintainers. On Thu, 2013-08-15 at 19:16 -0500, Robert Nelson wrote: > > This is fixed in the sound next branch: > > > > > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound.git/commit/?h=for-nex

Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-06 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 02:01:14AM +0200, Tomasz Figa wrote: > I don't see any other solution here than moving all the Allwinner code to > DT (as it has been suggested in this thread several times already), as > this is the only hardware description method supported by ARM Linux. Well, the serv

Re: CT-PC89E - samsung 8.9in arm netbook - debian lenny successfully installed

2010-03-01 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 12:52:11PM +0100, Marcus Better wrote: > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > next interesting things to try include recompiling and replacing > > xserver-xorg with kdrive, why the hell isn't there a debian package > > for kdrive?? > Guessing: because there is xserver-x

Re: Bricked Sheevaplug

2009-08-02 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 08:19:37PM +0100, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > USB 0: host mode > PEX 0: interface detected no Link. > Net: egiga0 [PRIME], egiga1 > Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 > Using egiga0 device > TFTP from server 10.4.50.5; our IP address is 10.4.50.165 > Filename 'uImage'. > Loa

Re: beagleboard kernel for debian

2008-11-14 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 04:43:20PM +0200, Riku Voipio wrote: > I believe Current status is that basic OMAP3 and some OMAP2 support > is in mainline kernel now. The biggest bit missing ATM is the > TWL4030 driver. And then the big stream of power managment stuff > that is still WiP... TWL4030 seem

Re: Please test debian-installer rc1 images

2008-11-13 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 02:22:21PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > I actually read about the new Gumstix in LWN today which is also OMAP > based. The Gumstix and Beagleboard definitely sound interesting. > Maybe we can TI to donate some. It'd be good, yes. Though at the price of the beagleboar

Re: Please test debian-installer rc1 images

2008-11-13 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:31:50PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > too long to build. So you'd have to come up with a good argument as > to why we should add an OMAP kernel (e.g. how many users are there > going to be; which devices use such a CPU, etc). The Beagleboard and other platforms deri