Re: [#TCI-363-37182]: Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-10 Thread luke.leighton
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 5:31 AM, MobinNet wrote: > luke.leighton, yes, automated service that i was subscribed to without my authorisation or permission: what can i do you for? > This email concerns your recent ticket: Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner > SoC support upstrea

Re: [#TCI-363-37182]: Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-10 Thread luke.leighton
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 5:31 AM, MobinNet sasupp...@mobinnet.net wrote: luke.leighton, yes, automated service that i was subscribed to without my authorisation or permission: what can i do you for? This email concerns your recent ticket: Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support

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

2013-06-09 Thread luke.leighton
On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 11:31 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > 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" > >

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

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

2013-06-09 Thread luke.leighton
ok, so the deadline's almost up but the discussions of the past two or so days have basically i think everything that needs to be said, and i'm extremely grateful to everyone who's contributed, privately and publicly, especially on such short notice. i've passed it over to my associates who will

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

2013-06-09 Thread luke.leighton
ok, so the deadline's almost up but the discussions of the past two or so days have basically i think everything that needs to be said, and i'm extremely grateful to everyone who's contributed, privately and publicly, especially on such short notice. i've passed it over to my associates who will

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

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

2013-06-09 Thread luke.leighton
On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 11:31 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux li...@arm.linux.org.uk wrote: 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

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

2013-06-08 Thread luke.leighton
On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 9:28 AM, Tomasz Figa wrote: > Now that the discussion went off from "you stupid kernel developers *lol*. i get that summary ["you said people were stupid!!!"] a lot. i don't quite understand where it comes from, otherwise i would stop doing it :) > adopted DeviceTree

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

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 thomas.petazz...@free-electrons.com wrote: Maxime will reply to this in more details, but I believe the status is: * Interrupt controller is working. * Clock drivers are

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

2013-06-08 Thread luke.leighton
On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 9:28 AM, Tomasz Figa tomasz.f...@gmail.com wrote: Now that the discussion went off from you stupid kernel developers *lol*. i get that summary [you said people were stupid!!!] a lot. i don't quite understand where it comes from, otherwise i would stop doing it :)

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

2013-06-07 Thread luke.leighton
On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 12:09 AM, Dennis Lan (dlan) wrote: > > > 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

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

2013-06-07 Thread luke.leighton
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 11:08 PM, Maxime Ripard wrote: > 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

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 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 8:35 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > 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

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

2013-06-07 Thread luke.leighton
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > 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, there's not enough time. 2 days left. >

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

2013-06-07 Thread luke.leighton
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 working. > * GPIO is working. > * Timer is working. > * UART is working >

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

2013-06-07 Thread luke.leighton
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/allwinner_linux_proposal.txt i'm setting a rule that each

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

2013-06-07 Thread joem
Confused yes - innocent mistake - 50% yes. I see now the posts are cc'd from arm-netbook mailing lists to many other mailing lists with different standards for noise. Apologies for not seeing that. arm-netbook list 'belongs' to luke, but generally the noise level is very low here and its aim is

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

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

2013-06-07 Thread Wookey
+++ Maxime Ripard [2013-06-06 19:28 +0200]: > Hi everyone, > > On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 09:00:00AM -0700, Olof Johansson wrote: > > Listen, Allwinner isn't working in a vacuum, believe it or not. I've > > talked to them, so has Arnd and other people working on ARM, including > > Maxime Ripard,

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

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_

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

2013-06-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
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

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

2013-06-07 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
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 will pass beyond which the opportunity being presented is lost. > (Linux kernel >

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 luke.leighton
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 7:59 PM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > 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

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

2013-06-07 Thread luke.leighton
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Wookey wrote: > OK, this sounds good. Could you say who the allwinner engineers are? [cross-over: i asked him if he'd be happy to let me know privately, so i have at least some context when speaking to the Directors] > I > guess it's quite a large organisation,

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

2013-06-07 Thread luke.leighton
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 7:54 PM, Olof Johansson wrote: > 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

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

2013-06-07 Thread luke.leighton
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. > and even on how Allwinner's cooperation with our > community looks (and seem to be completely closed to our effort of showing >

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

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

2013-06-07 Thread luke.leighton
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 9:22 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > 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

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

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

2013-06-07 Thread luke.leighton
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Maxime Ripard wrote: > I should also add that Allwinner not only talked to us already, oo! great! can you please [privately, not publicly] let me know who that is, so i can let the Directors know, so that they can follow up? > but also > expressed interest in

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

2013-06-07 Thread luke.leighton
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 5:00 PM, 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 this a good solution is to

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

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

2013-06-07 Thread luke.leighton
thomas i _very_ briefly spotted this when i was extremely busy yesterday, and i'm grateful to the 2 or 3 people who've given me the keywords and/or links to catch up. On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Dear Tomasz Figa, > > On Thu, 06 Jun 2013 02:01:14 +0200, Tomasz Figa

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

2013-06-07 Thread luke.leighton
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Alexandre Belloni wrote: > On 07/06/2013 10:06, luke.leighton wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Vladimir Pantelic wrote: >>> luke.leighton wrote: 3 days remaining on the clock. >>> >>> what catastrophic thing will happen when the time runs out? >>

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

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

2013-06-07 Thread joem
> > 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 happened, in prior messages. can we move forward, please? I

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

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

2013-06-07 Thread Bjørn Mork
Tomasz Figa writes: > Seeing from your posts you don't have any knowledge on how Linux kernel > development works and even on how Allwinner's cooperation with our > community looks (and seem to be completely closed to our effort of showing > you the reality), so I'm not sure if you are the

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

2013-06-07 Thread Henrik Nordström
fre 2013-06-07 klockan 09:02 +0100 skrev luke.leighton: > 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? Just tell them that the kernel is moving to a different configuration syntax called

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

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

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

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

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 Vladimir Pantelic
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 consists of: > > * device-tree is what the linux kernel community has come

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

2013-06-07 Thread Alexandre Belloni
On 07/06/2013 10:06, luke.leighton wrote: > On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Vladimir Pantelic wrote: >> luke.leighton wrote: >>> 3 days remaining on the clock. >> >> what catastrophic thing will happen when the time runs out? > no catastrophe, vladimir: all that happens is that an opportunity

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

2013-06-07 Thread luke.leighton
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Vladimir Pantelic wrote: > luke.leighton wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Vladimir Pantelic >> wrote: >> >>> 4 days? WTF? since when did setting an ultimatum to the kernel >>> community work? >> >> >> i was only informed of the opportunity 2 days

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

2013-06-07 Thread luke.leighton
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 *their* job of moving forward with > their kernel

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

2013-06-07 Thread luke.leighton
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 13:24:57 luke.leighton wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 1:01 AM, Tomasz Figa

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

2013-06-07 Thread Vladimir Pantelic
luke.leighton wrote: On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Vladimir Pantelic wrote: 4 days? WTF? since when did setting an ultimatum to the kernel community work? i was only informed of the opportunity 2 days ago, vladimir. this is an important meeting. of course the linux kernel community is

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

2013-06-07 Thread luke.leighton
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Vladimir Pantelic wrote: > 4 days? WTF? since when did setting an ultimatum to the kernel > community work? i was only informed of the opportunity 2 days ago, vladimir. this is an important meeting. of course the linux kernel community is entirely free to: *

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 linux

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

2013-06-07 Thread joem
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 happened, in prior messages. can we move forward, please? I prefer it if

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 li...@arm.linux.org.uk 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,

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

2013-06-07 Thread luke.leighton
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Alexandre Belloni alexandre.bell...@free-electrons.com wrote: On 07/06/2013 10:06, luke.leighton wrote: On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Vladimir Pantelic vlado...@gmail.com wrote: luke.leighton wrote: 3 days remaining on the clock. what catastrophic thing

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

2013-06-07 Thread luke.leighton
thomas i _very_ briefly spotted this when i was extremely busy yesterday, and i'm grateful to the 2 or 3 people who've given me the keywords and/or links to catch up. On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazz...@free-electrons.com wrote: Dear Tomasz Figa, On Thu, 06 Jun

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 happened, in

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

2013-06-07 Thread luke.leighton
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Olof Johansson o...@lixom.net wrote: On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 8:13 AM, jonsm...@gmail.com jonsm...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 7:54 PM, luke.leighton luke.leigh...@gmail.com wrote: augh. ok. solutions. what are the solutions here? Luke if you

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

2013-06-07 Thread luke.leighton
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Maxime Ripard maxime.rip...@free-electrons.com wrote: I should also add that Allwinner not only talked to us already, oo! great! can you please [privately, not publicly] let me know who that is, so i can let the Directors know, so that they can follow up?

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 luke.leigh...@gmail.com 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

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

2013-06-07 Thread luke.leighton
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 9:22 PM, Arnd Bergmann a...@arndb.de wrote: 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

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

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

2013-06-07 Thread luke.leighton
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Tomasz Figa tomasz.f...@gmail.com wrote: Seeing from your posts you don't have any knowledge on how Linux kernel development works check back to 2004. and even on how Allwinner's cooperation with our community looks (and seem to be completely closed to our

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

2013-06-07 Thread luke.leighton
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 7:54 PM, Olof Johansson o...@lixom.net wrote: Luke, I want only one thing from you at this time. See below. On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 11:45 AM, luke.leighton luke.leigh...@gmail.com wrote: but the Directors of Allwinner aren't been kept in the loop, here: that's

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

2013-06-07 Thread luke.leighton
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Wookey woo...@wookware.org wrote: OK, this sounds good. Could you say who the allwinner engineers are? [cross-over: i asked him if he'd be happy to let me know privately, so i have at least some context when speaking to the Directors] I guess it's quite a

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

2013-06-07 Thread luke.leighton
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 7:59 PM, Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazz...@free-electrons.com wrote: 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

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 tomasz.f...@gmail.com 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

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

2013-06-07 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 7:26 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux li...@arm.linux.org.uk 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 will pass beyond which the opportunity being presented is lost.

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

2013-06-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
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 li...@arm.linux.org.uk wrote: Luke Leighton on the other hand is demanding that we no demands have been made, russell: i've informed you of an immovable

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 o...@lixom.net 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.

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

2013-06-07 Thread Wookey
+++ Maxime Ripard [2013-06-06 19:28 +0200]: Hi everyone, On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 09:00:00AM -0700, Olof Johansson wrote: Listen, Allwinner isn't working in a vacuum, believe it or not. I've talked to them, so has Arnd and other people working on ARM, including Maxime Ripard, who's been

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 li...@arm.linux.org.uk wrote: Luke Leighton on the other hand is demanding that we no demands have been made, russell: i've informed you of an immovable

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

2013-06-07 Thread joem
Confused yes - innocent mistake - 50% yes. I see now the posts are cc'd from arm-netbook mailing lists to many other mailing lists with different standards for noise. Apologies for not seeing that. arm-netbook list 'belongs' to luke, but generally the noise level is very low here and its aim is

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

2013-06-07 Thread luke.leighton
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/allwinner_linux_proposal.txt i'm setting a rule that each

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

2013-06-07 Thread luke.leighton
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 7:59 PM, Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazz...@free-electrons.com 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 working. * GPIO is working. * Timer is

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

2013-06-07 Thread luke.leighton
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux li...@arm.linux.org.uk wrote: 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, there's not enough time.

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

2013-06-07 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 8:35 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux li...@arm.linux.org.uk wrote: 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 li...@arm.linux.org.uk wrote: Luke Leighton on the other hand is

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 does

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

2013-06-07 Thread luke.leighton
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 11:08 PM, Maxime Ripard maxime.rip...@free-electrons.com wrote: 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,

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

2013-06-07 Thread luke.leighton
On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 12:09 AM, Dennis Lan (dlan) dennis.y...@gmail.com wrote: 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

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

2013-06-07 Thread luke.leighton
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Vladimir Pantelic vlado...@gmail.com wrote: 4 days? WTF? since when did setting an ultimatum to the kernel community work? i was only informed of the opportunity 2 days ago, vladimir. this is an important meeting. of course the linux kernel community is

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

2013-06-07 Thread Vladimir Pantelic
luke.leighton wrote: On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Vladimir Pantelic vlado...@gmail.com wrote: 4 days? WTF? since when did setting an ultimatum to the kernel community work? i was only informed of the opportunity 2 days ago, vladimir. this is an important meeting. of course the linux

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

2013-06-07 Thread luke.leighton
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Tomasz Figa tomasz.f...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 06 of June 2013 13:49:38 luke.leighton wrote: On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Tomasz Figa tomasz.f...@gmail.com wrote: Luke, On Thursday 06 of June 2013 13:24:57 luke.leighton wrote: On Thu, Jun 6, 2013

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

2013-06-07 Thread luke.leighton
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux li...@arm.linux.org.uk 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 *their* job of moving forward with

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

2013-06-07 Thread luke.leighton
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Vladimir Pantelic vlado...@gmail.com wrote: luke.leighton wrote: On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Vladimir Pantelic vlado...@gmail.com wrote: 4 days? WTF? since when did setting an ultimatum to the kernel community work? i was only informed of the

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

2013-06-07 Thread Alexandre Belloni
On 07/06/2013 10:06, luke.leighton wrote: On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Vladimir Pantelic vlado...@gmail.com wrote: luke.leighton wrote: 3 days remaining on the clock. what catastrophic thing will happen when the time runs out? no catastrophe, vladimir: all that happens is that an

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

2013-06-07 Thread Vladimir Pantelic
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 consists of: * device-tree is what the linux kernel community has come up with,

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] - it

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 tomasz.f...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 06 of June 2013 13:49:38 luke.leighton wrote: On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Tomasz Figa tomasz.f...@gmail.com wrote: Luke, On Thursday

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 consists

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. As

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 o...@lixom.net: On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 8:13 AM, jonsm...@gmail.com jonsm...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 7:54 PM, luke.leighton luke.leigh...@gmail.com wrote: augh. ok. solutions. what are the solutions here? Luke if you really want to fix this a good

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

2013-06-07 Thread Henrik Nordström
fre 2013-06-07 klockan 09:02 +0100 skrev luke.leighton: 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? Just tell them that the kernel is moving to a different configuration syntax called

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

2013-06-07 Thread Bjørn Mork
Tomasz Figa tomasz.f...@gmail.com writes: Seeing from your posts you don't have any knowledge on how Linux kernel development works and even on how Allwinner's cooperation with our community looks (and seem to be completely closed to our effort of showing you the reality), so I'm not sure

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