Le 18/06/2015 14:59, Alexandre Belloni a écrit : > On 18/06/2015 at 09:54:50 +0200, Paul Bolle wrote : >>> I'd like though that this matter of fact doesn't block this piece of >>> code from being reviewed or even better merged in order to ease this new >>> SoC landing... >> >> The other side of that is that the sama5d2 might never make it, or take >> very long to make it, into mainline. And this would then end up being >> yet another chunk of code adding no value to mainline. >> > > Come on Paul, you prefer the current situation were each vendor have > there tree and when support for an SoC lands in mainline it is already > deprecated? > > You have one vendor here, trying to get support for its SoC even before > the silicon is available. Intel is always cited as being a good player > in the linux community for doing exactly that. They even have to remove > support for a CPU that was never manufactured... > The main difference here is that we are no longer doinc everything in > mach-xxx so we have to get the driver part mainlined and this requires > synchronization. I really belive that you can't blame Nicolas to get the > drivers first then the SoC in. > > Also, Atmel has a good track record and their SocS are almost fully > supported in mainline, you can trust that sama5d2 support is going to > land there soon.
I've just posted it BTW. And it contains the "HAVE_AT91_GENERATED" symbol. Bye, -- Nicolas Ferre -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
