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

2013-06-05 Thread Stephen Warren
On 06/05/2013 03:59 PM, Henrik Nordström wrote: > ons 2013-06-05 klockan 22:24 +0100 skrev Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton: ... >> so the point is: if anyone wishes me to propose to allwinner that >> they convert over to devicetree, or any other proposal which involves >> significant low-level change

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

2013-06-05 Thread jonsm...@gmail.com
On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 6:47 PM, luke.leighton wrote: > On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Henrik Nordström > wrote: > >>> and then there's the boot0 and boot1 loaders, these *do* have > >> no, these are not tiny. boot0 is 24KB to fit the initial embedded SRAM >> (not cache), but boot1 is on p

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

2013-06-05 Thread jonsm...@gmail.com
On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 7:26 PM, luke.leighton wrote: > On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 12:07 AM, jonsm...@gmail.com > wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 6:47 PM, luke.leighton >> wrote: >>> On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Henrik Nordström >>> wrote: >>> > and then there's the boot0 and boot1

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

2013-06-05 Thread jonsm...@gmail.com
On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 7:26 PM, luke.leighton wrote: > On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 12:07 AM, jonsm...@gmail.com > wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 6:47 PM, luke.leighton >> wrote: >>> On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Henrik Nordström >>> wrote: >>> > and then there's the boot0 and boot1

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

2013-06-05 Thread Tomasz Figa
On Thursday 06 of June 2013 00:54:02 luke.leighton wrote: > On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 12:40 AM, Henrik Nordström > > wrote: > > tor 2013-06-06 klockan 00:26 +0100 skrev luke.leighton: > >> no john - they've only added it to the multiplexed sections of the > >> > >> drivers which they themselves ha

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

2013-06-06 Thread Thomas Petazzoni
Dear Tomasz Figa, On Thu, 06 Jun 2013 02:01:14 +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. H

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

2013-06-06 Thread Tomasz Figa
Hi Thomas, On Thursday 06 of June 2013 11:27:23 Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Dear Tomasz Figa, > > On Thu, 06 Jun 2013 02:01:14 +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 > > al

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

2013-06-06 Thread Tomasz Figa
Luke, On Thursday 06 of June 2013 13:24:57 luke.leighton wrote: > On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 1:01 AM, 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 hardw

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

2013-06-06 Thread Tomasz Figa
On Thursday 06 of June 2013 13:49:38 luke.leighton wrote: > On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Tomasz Figa wrote: > > Luke, > > > > On Thursday 06 of June 2013 13:24:57 luke.leighton wrote: > >> On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 1:01 AM, Tomasz Figa > > > > wrote: > >> > I don't see any other solution here

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

2013-06-06 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux
On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 01:24:57PM +0100, luke.leighton wrote: > On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 1:01 AM, 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 hardw

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

2013-06-06 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux
On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 01:22:04PM +0100, luke.leighton wrote: > On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 1:19 AM, Henrik Nordström > wrote: > > tor 2013-06-06 klockan 00:54 +0100 skrev luke.leighton: > > > >> > Not really the case. Actually the opposite. DT have this as well, and > >> > integrated in device probin

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

2013-06-06 Thread Olof Johansson
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 7:02 AM, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 01:24:57PM +0100, luke.leighton wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 1:01 AM, 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 t

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

2013-06-06 Thread jonsm...@gmail.com
On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 7:54 PM, luke.leighton wrote: > augh. ok. solutions. what are the solutions here? Luke if you really want to fix this a good solution is to have Allwinner join Linaro and provide an engineer to the Linaro effort. That engineer will get educated on the right way to do ke

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

2013-06-06 Thread Olof Johansson
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 8:13 AM, jonsm...@gmail.com wrote: > On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 7:54 PM, luke.leighton wrote: >> augh. ok. solutions. what are the solutions here? > > Luke if you really want to fix this a good solution is to have > Allwinner join Linaro and provide an engineer to the Linar

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

2013-06-06 Thread Maxime Ripard
Hi everyone, On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 09:00:00AM -0700, Olof Johansson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 8:13 AM, jonsm...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 7:54 PM, luke.leighton > > wrote: > >> augh. ok. solutions. what are the solutions here? > > > > Luke if you really want to fix

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

2013-06-06 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 07:28:10PM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote: > I should also add that Allwinner not only talked to us already, but also > expressed interest in doing actual modern kernel development (like using > "recently" introduced kernel frameworks, like the clk framework). > > I've received

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

2013-06-06 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Thursday 06 June 2013, Maxime Ripard wrote: > So yes, Allwinner has an evil vendor tree (c), with a solution similar yet > inferior (because not generic enough) to the device tree, but they show > interest on going down the mainline road. Right, and of course there is nothing special about that

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

2013-06-07 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 09:02:43AM +0100, luke.leighton wrote: > ok. so. we come back to the question again: what shall i propose to > them that they consider doing, and what benefit would it be to them to > do so? > > i cannot go to them and say "you have to do this [insert proposal > here]"

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

2013-06-07 Thread Tomasz Figa
On Friday 07 of June 2013 08:52:43 luke.leighton wrote: > On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Tomasz Figa wrote: > > On Thursday 06 of June 2013 13:49:38 luke.leighton wrote: > >> On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Tomasz Figa > > > > wrote: > >> > Luke, > >> > > >> > On Thursday 06 of June 2013 13:2

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

2013-06-07 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 10:40:37AM +0200, Vladimir Pantelic wrote: > luke.leighton wrote:> so. > > > > coming back to what you said earlier: i'm formulating what to say to > > allwinner [and need to pre-send something by monday so that they can > > consider it before the meeting]. so far, it c

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

2013-06-07 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 09:48:22AM +0200, Vladimir Pantelic wrote: > luke.leighton wrote: >> 3 days remaining on the clock. > > what catastrophic thing will happen when the time runs out? Maybe the world will explode into tiny small bits? Probably not. I suspect nothing of any relevance to us.

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

2013-06-07 Thread Barry Song
2013/6/7 Olof Johansson : > On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 8:13 AM, jonsm...@gmail.com wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 7:54 PM, luke.leighton >> wrote: >>> augh. ok. solutions. what are the solutions here? >> >> Luke if you really want to fix this a good solution is to have >> Allwinner join Linaro

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

2013-06-07 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 08:52:43AM +0100, luke.leighton wrote: > coming back to what you said earlier: i'm formulating what to say to > allwinner [and need to pre-send something by monday so that they can > consider it before the meeting]. so far, it consists of: > > * device-tree is what the li

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

2013-06-07 Thread Stephen Warren
On 06/07/2013 02:02 AM, luke.leighton wrote: > On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux > wrote: > >> If companies are going to go off and invent the square wheel, and that >> makes *them* suffer the loss of being able to merge back into the >> mainline kernel, thereby making *the

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

2013-06-07 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 02:49:28PM +, joem wrote: > > > SoC vendors are free to join the discussion, and many SoC vendors are part > > > of the kernel community, so calling this unilateral is plain wrong. > > > > you're free to believe that, vladimir. i've explained why that > > hasn't happe

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

2013-06-07 Thread Olof Johansson
Luke, I want only one thing from you at this time. See below. On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 11:45 AM, luke.leighton wrote: > but the Directors of Allwinner aren't been kept in the loop, > here: that's my job, to get them up-to-speed. The one job I would love for you to do instead of all this tr

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

2013-06-07 Thread Thomas Petazzoni
Hello, On Fri, 7 Jun 2013 19:26:49 +0100, luke.leighton wrote: > > Have you noticed that it is already the case in mainline? > > i knew there was a little bit, but not the extent of the commits. Then you could probably use a bit of your time to read the kernel commit logs rather than writing h

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

2013-06-07 Thread Tomasz Figa
On Friday 07 of June 2013 20:02:03 luke.leighton wrote: > On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Tomasz Figa wrote: > >Seeing from your posts you don't have any knowledge on how Linux kernel > > > > development works > > check back to 2004. $ git log --oneline --author="Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton"

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

2013-06-07 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 08:02:03PM +0100, luke.leighton wrote: > well, tough. get me up to speed, *fast*. No, not unless you're willing to *pay* someone to spend time teaching you, because you are asking to be *taught* about the current situation, so you're asking someone to do some _work_ _for_

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

2013-06-07 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 08:04:26PM +0100, luke.leighton wrote: > On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 7:54 PM, Olof Johansson wrote: > > By demanding > > a-a-ah, no demands made. " well, tough. get me up to speed, *fast*. please stop wasting time like this: get me up to speed." That is a demand. Stop tro

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

2013-06-07 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 08:18:14PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 7:26 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux > wrote: > > Luke Leighton on the other hand is demanding that we > > no demands have been made, russell: i've informed you of an immovable > deadline which wi

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

2013-06-07 Thread Maxime Ripard
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 07:26:49PM +0100, luke.leighton wrote: > maxime: we need to talk :) > > please tell me in 4 or 5 sentences what you've managed to do so far, > expanding a little on what thomas says below, more specifically what > it achieves and/or allows rather than technically what it

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

2013-06-07 Thread Dennis Lan (dlan)
On Saturday, June 8, 2013, luke.leighton wrote: > right - too many people contributed to this, input from jon smirl, > wookie, maxime, tomasz, henrik, i've made a start here and will > continue editing: this is notes for me to put forward an agenda for > discussion: > > http://hands.com/~lkcl/allw

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

2013-06-08 Thread Tomasz Figa
Luke, On Friday 07 of June 2013 22:29:34 luke.leighton wrote: > On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 7:59 PM, Thomas Petazzoni > > wrote: > > Maxime will reply to this in more details, but I believe the status is: > > * Interrupt controller is working. > > * Clock drivers are working. > > * Pinctrl is wor

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

2013-06-09 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux
On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 11:09:59PM +0100, luke.leighton wrote: > this is all a rather round-about way to say that for those people who > heard and are thinking of heeding russell's call to "be silent and to > ignore me" Okay, so you've just misrepresented me in the above comment. I never said any