Re: new binutils needed for arm in 3.12-rc1

2013-09-26 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/25/2013 10:52:44 AM, Måns Rullgård wrote: Rob Landley r...@landley.net writes: On 09/24/2013 09:07:57 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: I'd strongly suggest you make your binutils compatible with newer instruction syntax instead of making the kernel more complex. Meaning I play whack-a-mole

Re: new binutils needed for arm in 3.12-rc1

2013-09-26 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/25/2013 11:13:17 AM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: On Wed, 25 Sep 2013, Rob Landley wrote: On 09/24/2013 09:07:57 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: I'd strongly suggest you make your binutils compatible with newer instruction syntax instead of making the kernel more complex. Meaning I play whack

Re: new binutils needed for arm in 3.12-rc1

2013-09-26 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/25/2013 03:49:07 PM, Måns Rullgård wrote: Russell King - ARM Linux li...@arm.linux.org.uk writes: On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:23:06AM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: On 09/24/2013 09:07:57 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: It could be as simple as making gas accept an extra argument for instructions

Re: new binutils needed for arm in 3.12-rc1

2013-09-25 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/24/2013 09:07:57 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: On Tue, 24 Sep 2013, Rob Landley wrote: On 09/24/2013 04:48:00 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: Now, if you feel strongly about this, we _could_ introduce a CONFIG_OLD_BINUTILS and give everyone their cake - but it will be fragile

Re: new binutils needed for arm in 3.12-rc1

2013-09-24 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/24/2013 07:11:38 AM, Måns Rullgård wrote: Rob Landley r...@landley.net writes: On 09/23/2013 06:59:17 PM, Pavel Machek wrote: During 3.12-rc, Will Deacon introduced code into arch/arm that requires binutils 2.22. Um, my toolchain is using the last gplv2 snapshot of binutils out

Re: new binutils needed for arm in 3.12-rc1

2013-09-24 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/24/2013 04:48:00 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 04:23:48PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: What value is there in requiring the new toolchain? From what I could see of the commits it was micro-optimizations around memory barriers. *shrug* I can revert

Re: new binutils needed for arm in 3.12-rc1

2013-09-23 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/23/2013 06:59:17 PM, Pavel Machek wrote: During 3.12-rc, Will Deacon introduced code into arch/arm that requires binutils 2.22. Um, my toolchain is using the last gplv2 snapshot of binutils out of git, which is just past 2.17 and can build armv7 (but not armv8). Binutils 2.12-2.22 is

Re: new binutils needed for arm in 3.12-rc1

2013-09-23 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/23/2013 06:59:17 PM, Pavel Machek wrote: During 3.12-rc, Will Deacon introduced code into arch/arm that requires binutils 2.22. I'm sorry, it occurs to me I should have been more explicit: HH! KILL IT WITH FIRE!!! Rob-- To

Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Generic PHY Framework

2013-02-23 Thread Rob Landley
On 02/19/2013 09:05:00 AM, Felipe Balbi wrote: Greg, can you pitch your suggestion here ? It would be great to hear your rationale behind dropping class infrastructure, couldn't find anything through Google and since feature-removal-schedule.txt has been removed (without adding it to

Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] drivers: phy: add generic PHY framework

2013-02-23 Thread Rob Landley
On 02/18/2013 11:53:14 PM, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote: The PHY framework provides a set of APIs for the PHY drivers to create/destroy a PHY and APIs for the PHY users to obtain a reference to the PHY with or without using phandle. To obtain a reference to the PHY without using phandle, the

Re: [PATCH 6/6] OF: Introduce DT overlay support.

2013-01-05 Thread Rob Landley
On 01/04/2013 01:31:10 PM, Pantelis Antoniou wrote: Introduce DT overlay support. Using this functionality it is possible to dynamically overlay a part of the kernel's tree with another tree that's been dynamically loaded. It is also possible to remove node and properties. Signed-off-by:

Re: [PATCH 0/6] Introducing Device Tree Overlays

2013-01-05 Thread Rob Landley
On 01/05/2013 03:35:58 AM, Richard Cochran wrote: On Sat, Jan 05, 2013 at 12:16:51AM -0600, Joel A Fernandes wrote: The problem being addressed is discussed in this thread: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1389017 Thanks for the link. Since the motivation is already documented

Re: [RFC] Device Tree Overlays Proposal (Was Re: capebus moving omap_devices to mach-omap2)

2012-11-11 Thread Rob Landley
On 11/09/2012 10:28:59 AM, Grant Likely wrote: On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Stephen Warren swar...@wwwdotorg.org wrote: On 11/05/2012 01:40 PM, Grant Likely wrote: I'm not actually opposed to it, but it needs to be done in an elegant way. The DT data model already imposes

Re: [CFT 11/11] Add feature removal of old OMAP private DMA implementation

2012-06-08 Thread Rob Landley
On 06/07/2012 06:09 AM, Russell King wrote: Acked-by: Linus Walleij linus.wall...@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Russell King rmk+ker...@arm.linux.org.uk --- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 11 +++ 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git

Re: ARM defconfig files

2010-07-13 Thread Rob Landley
On Monday 12 July 2010 18:18:01 Linus Torvalds wrote: 2010/7/12 David Brown dav...@codeaurora.org: Do you have scripts or tools that you did this with, or is a manual process. We're about to add several new (ARM) targets, and it'd be nice to be able to make small defconfigs for those