Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1)

2013-06-16 Thread Josu Lazkano
2013/6/16 Ben Hutchings : > On Sun, 2013-06-16 at 21:18 +0200, Josu Lazkano wrote: >> 2013/6/16 Ben Hutchings : >> > On Sun, 2013-06-16 at 09:48 +0200, Josu Lazkano wrote: >> >> 2013/6/15 Ben Hutchings : >> >> > On Sat, 2013-06-15 at 14:51 +0200, Josu Lazkano wrote: >> >> >> Sorry for ask it again,

Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1)

2013-06-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2013-06-16 at 21:18 +0200, Josu Lazkano wrote: > 2013/6/16 Ben Hutchings : > > On Sun, 2013-06-16 at 09:48 +0200, Josu Lazkano wrote: > >> 2013/6/15 Ben Hutchings : > >> > On Sat, 2013-06-15 at 14:51 +0200, Josu Lazkano wrote: > >> >> Sorry for ask it again, but I don't have any information

Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1)

2013-06-16 Thread Josu Lazkano
2013/6/16 Ben Hutchings : > On Sun, 2013-06-16 at 09:48 +0200, Josu Lazkano wrote: >> 2013/6/15 Ben Hutchings : >> > On Sat, 2013-06-15 at 14:51 +0200, Josu Lazkano wrote: >> >> Sorry for ask it again, but I don't have any information about the 3.9 >> >> kernel release in the testing branch. >> >>

Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1)

2013-06-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2013-06-16 at 09:48 +0200, Josu Lazkano wrote: > 2013/6/15 Ben Hutchings : > > On Sat, 2013-06-15 at 14:51 +0200, Josu Lazkano wrote: > >> Sorry for ask it again, but I don't have any information about the 3.9 > >> kernel release in the testing branch. > >> > >> When it will be available fr

Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1)

2013-06-16 Thread Josu Lazkano
2013/6/15 Ben Hutchings : > On Sat, 2013-06-15 at 14:51 +0200, Josu Lazkano wrote: >> Sorry for ask it again, but I don't have any information about the 3.9 >> kernel release in the testing branch. >> >> When it will be available from official jessie repository? > > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianTes

Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1)

2013-06-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2013-06-15 at 14:51 +0200, Josu Lazkano wrote: > Sorry for ask it again, but I don't have any information about the 3.9 > kernel release in the testing branch. > > When it will be available from official jessie repository? http://wiki.debian.org/DebianTesting#How_Debian_Testing_Works --

Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1)

2013-06-15 Thread Josu Lazkano
Sorry for ask it again, but I don't have any information about the 3.9 kernel release in the testing branch. When it will be available from official jessie repository? Thank you very much. Regards. -- Josu Lazkano -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

RE: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1)

2013-06-10 Thread Bandi,Sarveshwar
,Sarveshwar Cc: debian-kernel@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1) On Thu, 2013-06-06 at 03:39 +, Bandi,Sarveshwar wrote: > Ben, > Thanks for the clarification. I understand what will be released is > a long way off. Was trying to understand what will be the driver cod

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" > > Okay

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

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 t

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 wi

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))

2013-06-07 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 p

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))

2013-06-07 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.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 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 be

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 secti

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 wi

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 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

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 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 wi

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 b

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, 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 7:54 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 up-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 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 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 > developer

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 road

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 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 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 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 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 w

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? >> n

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 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

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 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 rig

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 De

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 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 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 09:02:43AM +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 up

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 i

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 ago,

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 versions

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: * c

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))

2013-06-06 Thread Henrik Nordström
tor 2013-06-06 klockan 13:22 +0100 skrev luke.leighton: > idea: hook into devicetree gpio functions to allow script-fex gpio functions to gain access in a separate module? that sort of thing. No. Drop FEX from the kernel, use DT. There is no reason why the kernel shold care about the FEX format

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

2013-06-06 Thread Henrik Nordström
tor 2013-06-06 klockan 13:19 +0100 skrev luke.leighton: > mass-volume tablet, mass-volume IPTV box. android OS, nothing else. Which still includes a number of possible configurations with different i2c, spi, usb etc devices connected on the board. Because Allwinner is not using mainline methods

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 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 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: getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-06 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 11:38:52PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > their sheer overwhelming success provides us with mass-volume > ultra-low cost hardware. to not make an effort to accommodate them > would in this specific instance be a huge missed opportunity, > responsibility for w

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 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 Theodore Ts'o
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 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 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 Vladimir Pantelic
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 probing. Allwinner need to hack every driver used > to add their

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

2013-06-06 Thread luke.leighton
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 than moving all the Allwinner code >> > to DT (as it has been suggested in this

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 luke.leighton
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 hardware description method supported by ARM Linux. i repeat again: please s

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

2013-06-06 Thread luke.leighton
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 probing. Allwinner need to hack every driver used >> > to add their gpio requests

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

2013-06-06 Thread luke.leighton
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 1:15 AM, Henrik Nordström wrote: > conditions. I don't know what you really mean here, only that it's not > "target market". mass-volume tablet, mass-volume IPTV box. android OS, nothing else. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a su

Re: getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-06 Thread Stefan Monnier
> 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 changes to their working practices that could > potentially have a massive knock-on effect onto their > multi-million-dollar clients,

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: getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-06 Thread Thomas Petazzoni
Hello, On Wed, 5 Jun 2013 16:48:27 -0400, jonsm...@gmail.com wrote: > > fex covers *eevvveeerrthng* - right from flipping the > > multiplexing for all 3 SD/MMC cards so that you can pretend that SD0 > > is SD2 and you can specify *different* GPIOs for each to say which > > is > > Yo

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: getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-06 Thread Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
On Jun 6, 2013, at 12:07 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > [ please do try to remove debian-release from replies - my mistake > please try not to propagage it, even though it may be too late!] > > On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 10:16 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux > wrote: > > eyy, allo russell

Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1)

2013-06-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2013-06-06 at 03:39 +, Bandi,Sarveshwar wrote: > Ben, > Thanks for the clarification. I understand what will be released is > a long way off. Was trying to understand what will be the driver code > base for Jessie. I would assume say, you do pick 3.9 for testing, then > the driver cod

RE: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1)

2013-06-05 Thread Bandi,Sarveshwar
obvious). Am I right? Thanks, Sarvesh -Original Message- From: Ben Hutchings [mailto:b...@decadent.org.uk] Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 6:38 PM To: Bandi,Sarveshwar Cc: debian-kernel@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1) On Wed, 2013-06-05 at 07:38 +, Bandi,Sarveshwar

Re: getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-05 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 11:56:43PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > so there's a lot of factors which i believe the linux kernel > developers are not aware of, and haven't taken into account, and to > place blame onto the SoC vendors for not working with *you* when *you* > haven't made

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

2013-06-05 Thread Henrik Nordström
ons 2013-06-05 klockan 23:20 +0100 skrev luke.leighton: > ok: great. so we have something that i can potentially propose to > them. now: what reason can i give that they should accept this? > what's the biggest incentive for them, here, to make these changes? > what would they gain? Mainly a

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

2013-06-05 Thread Henrik Nordström
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 probing. Allwinner need to hack every driver used > > to add their gpio requests to have pinmuxing triggered. > > augh. ok. solutions. wha

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

2013-06-05 Thread Henrik Nordström
tor 2013-06-06 klockan 00:52 +0100 skrev luke.leighton: > > How is the Allwinner kernel going to load the driver for the pca9532? > > The mainline pca9532 driver does not understand fex so it can't read > > the necessary initialization data. > > jon: you're immediately outside of the target marke

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))

2013-06-05 Thread luke.leighton
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 12:40 AM, jonsm...@gmail.com wrote: > I have a Cubieboard and I have a pca9532 on my desk. Now I want to > attach this pca9532 to the Cubieboard so I wire them together on I2C. > > How is the Allwinner kernel going to load the driver for the pca9532? > The mainline pca9532

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

2013-06-05 Thread luke.leighton
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 have written. such as >> drivers/usb/sun{N}i_usb/*.[ch], drivers/block/nand/

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

2013-06-05 Thread Henrik Nordström
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 have written. such as > drivers/usb/sun{N}i_usb/*.[ch], drivers/block/nand/sun{N}_i, > arch/arm/mach-sun{N}i and so on. And a number of SP

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: getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-05 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 12:27 AM, Tomasz Figa wrote: >> their sheer overwhelming success provides us with mass-volume >> ultra-low cost hardware. to not make an effort to accommodate them >> would in this specific instance be a huge missed opportunity, > OK, this is a large volume of hardware t

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: getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-05 Thread Tomasz Figa
On Wednesday 05 of June 2013 23:38:52 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 10:52 PM, Tomasz Figa wrote: > > Hi Luke, > > allo tomasz :) > > ok - much of what you say is duplicated by what russell said, so in > effect the same reply is relevant, but there's been some cr

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

2013-06-05 Thread luke.leighton
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 loaders, these *do* have >> >>> no, these are not tiny. boot0 is 24K

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

2013-06-05 Thread Henrik Nordström
ons 2013-06-05 klockan 16:54 -0600 skrev Stephen Warren: > 1) Put all the parameters in the U-Boot configuration header. This is > normal. Yes, we do so today for U-Boot SPL. But this won't fit very well with the Allwinner ODM workflow where one binary image works on a wide range of board configu

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 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

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