[dev-4.7 patch 5/5] arch/arm: introduce support for Mallanox evb aspeed 2500 config and dts flavors

Rick Altherr raltherr at google.com
Tue Aug 23 08:53:01 AEST 2016


I believe Xo is working on lpc as well.

On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 11:22 PM, Joel Stanley <joel at jms.id.au> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 3:36 PM, Vadim Pasternak <vadimp at mellanox.com>
> wrote:
> >> > By the way, I see that in 4.7 upstream you already added some minimal
> stuff
> >> for Aspeed SoC.
> >> > Do you have some plan regarding upstream other stuff to kernel?
> >>
> >> Yes. I intend to merge all of the drivers upstream.
> >>
> >> > When you think it could happen?
> >>
> >> We have watchdog and irq controller in 4.8.
> >>
> >> 4.9 will have clocksource, gpio and pinmux.
> >>
> >> Brendan is working on i2c which I hope will be ready in time for
> inclusion in 4.9.
> >>
> >> We also have bt, clock, mtd and vuart drivers that need review and
> submission. I
> >> hope to get as many as possible into 4.9.
> >>
> >> > And are you going to submit upstream all Aspeed files together or you
> are
> >> planning to do it in some particular order?
> >>
> >> As each of the drivers are going to different maintainers, they do not
> have any
> >> dependency on each other. They can go up when they are ready.
> >>
> >
> > Great,
> > Thank you very much for your detailed answers.
> > I'll re-work the patches according to your comment and re-submit them.
> >
> > As I understand you don't need peci, jtag, pwm, usb at the moment.
> > Could we submit these module for upstream review after your approval by
> ourselves?
>
> Yeah, I think that would work best.
>
> > What about RTC and SPI stuff?
>
> The SPI driver (I called it a MTD driver, another name is a spi-nor
> driver) is being worked on by Milton. I hope he is able to send it
> upstream for 4.9.
>
> I forgot about the rtc driver. I wrote that over a year ago; it can go
> upstream in 4.9 as well.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Joel
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