soundcheck wrote: > Why don't you provide your patches to the mainline folks?
Erm.... Because they are not *MY* patches..... I didn't write the code..... Other people are working on getting the necessary patches into a state where "upstream" will accept them. It's a chicken and egg situation. As I said before, the first thing that needs to get "upstreamed" is the Emilio DMA driver. (Cyclic DMA transfers needed for audio driver.) Then the actual audio drivers will be submitted for upstream approval. I don't know what the exact status is, but that DMA patch has been submitted several times to the linux-arm-kernel mailing list for review and still hasn't been accepted AFAIK. Does that mean it is experimental or the code doesn't work.... No! Does it mean that in some way, shape or form, the upstream reviewers require something to be changed, to conform to their preferred way of doing things...... Soundcheck.... I'm not sure if you are aware of this, but unlike some of the other ARM hardware, the people working on SUNXI are not paid to do so. (AllWinner themselves, appear to have little interest in accelerating mainline support.) They are hobby people, working in their spare time, not sponsored by AllWinner. This is why progress is slower than it is for some other SoC's, when it comes to getting stuff "upstreamed". (Some vendors employ people to write code, specifically to get it into mainline early, rather than just base on, and stick to a specific version of the kernel, which gets "older" by the day.) And the AllWinner people haven't exactly encouraged more people to join in, and donate their time, with the GPL violations..... I agree it is awkward that it isn't all upstream, but the patches are out there, have been submitted to either sunxi or linux-arm-kernel mailing lists, and can easily be obtained by eg. cloning that codekipper git tree, that I already mentioned. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JackOfAll's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3069 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101624 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
