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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 00/76] Synopsys ARC Linux kernel Port
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On Friday 18 January 2013, Vineet Gupta wrote:
> This patchset based off-of 3.8-rc4, adds the Linux kernel port to ARC700
> processor family (750D and 770D) from Synopsys. I would be greatful for
> further review and feedback.
>
> Salient points about v2 patchset
> -------------------------------
> * All of the feedback from v1 RFC patchseries has been addressed.
>
> * Some of the major fixes for v1 review comments such as Device Tree support,
> multi-platform-image and syscall-restart issues, have not been squashed
> into relevent patches, but instead have been applied as slap-on patches
> on orig ones. This is merely to build up some revision history into the
> final-upstream-merged version. If people think it's too ugly, I can do
> the chop-n-dice-n-squash, but my preference would be the style we have now.
>
> * Unlike RFC v1 series (split into 2 part) this one includes the complete port
> (still the minimal kernel at halfway checkpoint, builds/runs fine).
> This combined with prev point, make the full patchset a touch large, for
> which I appologize in advance.
>
> * The entire series however is also available at
> git://github.com/foss-for-synopsys-dwc-arc-processors/linux.git arc-3.8-lkml-v2
>

Hi Vineet,

I've looked at the entire series again now, and it looks very good
overall, I only had comments for tiny issues. With 76 patches in the
series, I doubt that anybody is going to look through all of them
again though. Are the patches already part of Linux-next? If not,
I would recommend getting them in there as a preparation for merging
in 3.9.

I would also recommend to only send incremental patches after that,
as well as new versions of some of the patches if you decide to
replace them based on comments you get.

Arnd


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