Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 22 Mar 2006 15:42:14 +0800 | | From | "Luke Yang" <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2]Blackfin archtecture patche for 2.6.16 |
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On 3/22/06, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote: > Robin Getz <rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org> wrote: > > > > Luke Yang wrote: > > >On 3/21/06, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote: > > > > - How widespread/popular is the blackfin? Are many devices using it? > > > > How old/mature is it? Is it a new thing or is it near end-of-life? > > > As a DSP, Blackfin has been there for years and is somewhat popular. > > >But as a CPU which can run Linux, we are trying to make it popular. > > >Anyway a 5$ chip runs Linux and can do audio/video codec is a good toy to > > >play with. > > > > I would not describe it as a toy (sorry Luke), > > > > [ interesting info ] > > > > Thanks. > > > If you think our patch sucks, fine - let us know where to fix it. > > It looks reasonable to me, from a ten-minute-scan. > > Well. All architecture ports suck. Yours sucks averagely ;) > > The todo list of which I'm aware is > > - use serial core in that driver > > - Fix up that ioctl so it a) doesn't sleep in spinlock and b) compiles > > - Use generic IRQ framework > > - Review all the volatiles, consolidate them in some helper-in-header-file. > > - Sort out maintainance issues, gather signed-off-bys. (Done, it appears) > > More things might come out once people start paying more attention, but if > that's the extent of things, I'd be OK with a merge when you're ready. Does this merge has to be within 1 week after the release, so we have to wait for 2.6.17? Or this can be done on mm-tree? >
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