From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753447AbbCDWbn (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Mar 2015 17:31:43 -0500 Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.131]:59934 "EHLO mout.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751475AbbCDWbl (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Mar 2015 17:31:41 -0500 From: Arnd Bergmann To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: dwalker@fifo99.com, Ulf Hansson , linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, Tim Bird , Stephen Boyd , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Bryan Huntsman , Bjorn Andersson , Greg Kroah-Hartman , David Brown , Linus Walleij Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/18] ARM: msm multiplatform support Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 23:30:59 +0100 Message-ID: <2137185.YgRmu1hF3r@wuerfel> User-Agent: KMail/4.11.5 (Linux/3.16.0-10-generic; KDE/4.11.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20150304221141.GA10550@fifo99.com> References: <1425497592-1831064-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> <20150304221141.GA10550@fifo99.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:VRhbTI2gIk1SEUCNLnBOaGmdfCLqDHzw52Z5d8ECQbMuNh/RwEE 2jgmUKgyy4iYL2Gop9F19rWoHW4jCjzrhcM9llFDj1Y4bakVHO1Ni4D7rTRSNxrwneAWZ3v q561+SEBs/qLw1Eswtm6Tfn5ya4ILCSsf7EbDnTK59zJuC/anmUozDRfPT7raXxW32l3WoH oCgIeU6x81iYzjcg4yJCQ== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1; Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 04 March 2015 22:11:41 dwalker@fifo99.com wrote: > On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 08:32:54PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > This is my final piece of the puzzle for ARMv6/v7 multiplatform > > support. In combination with the other patches that are now > > at git://kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/playground.git > > multiplatform-4.0-rc2 and the at91 and shmobile parts from other > > developers, you can now build one kernel that includes all > > ARMv6 and ARMv7 targets we support in Linux. > > > > Since mach-msm has seen very few updates over the last years, > > it was more work to get to this point than the others, and > > some patches are more of a band-aid than a proper solution. > > Still, I think that each patch in the series is an improvement > > over the status-quo and I really want to see the last one > > merged into 4.1 and it depends on all the other ones. > > > > Stephen Boyd mentioned on IRC that he has been workin on > > a similar series, and I'm more than happy to replace some > > of this work with patches that he has done, as long as we > > can still have the full multiplatform support for 4.1. > > > > Since a lot of the patches are nontrivial and I have not > > been able to test any of this, I'm posting it as an RFC, > > but I'm also very interested in people testing it. > > Didn't look at it in great detail (I will eventually), but it looks like your just > cleaning things up .. Is that accurate ? Yes: if I did everything right, there should be no functional changes. Most of the work was converting compile-time conditionals into runtime conditionals, to ensure that things work when we enable all options at once. Arnd