Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [1/2] RTC: Add core rtc support for Gemini Soc devices | Date | Wed, 06 May 2015 19:21:21 +0300 | From | Roman Yeryomin <> |
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On 2015-05-06 12:53, Alexandre Belloni wrote: > On 06/05/2015 at 11:39:58 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote : >> On Saturday 02 May 2015 01:42:14 Alexandre Belloni wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > On 14/12/2010 at 16:08:26 +0100, Hans Ulli Kroll wrote : >> > > driver for the rtc device >> > > on Cortina Systems CS3516 or StormlinkSemi SL3516 aka Gemini SoC >> > > >> > > Signed-off-by: Hans Ulli Kroll <ulli.kroll@googlemail.com> >> > >> > This driver has never been merged and the platform doesn't seem to be >> > active anymore. Is there still any interest in getting this driver >> > mainlined? >> > >> > Only tree wide cleanups happened in mach-gemini since end of 2010, the >> > listed git repository (git://git.berlios.de/gemini-board) was on berliOS >> > (closed since 2011) and the sourceforge mirror seems empty. Is there >> > still interest in keeping that platform in the mainline? >> >> As far as I know, the platform is still used by a number of people, >> and is supported by OpenWRT. The reason we haven't seen updates is >> that >> Ulli has been mostly absent from upstream development, and we haven't >> had any other person step up as maintainer. >> >> I have a patch to convert the platform to ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM, and >> the code doesn't really get in the way otherwise. >> >> As far as I'm concerned, we should just merge all the patches from >> http://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt.git;a=tree;f=target/linux/gemini/patches-3.18 >> >> We should also try to find a maintainer that can respond to patches >> in a timely manner. If Ulli has time for that again, that would be >> great, >> otherwise I think we should find someone from OpenWRT to take over. >> > > Thanks to point that, I'll merge that one which seems clean enough: > http://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt.git;a=blob;f=target/linux/gemini/files/drivers/rtc/rtc-gemini.c;h=587d8122b2fbb1230437eadcce4789a53aa60ee5;hb=4c637410a2a1ab45988e8ca6202554a502102039
For 3.18 (and up) to work on gemini 160-gemini-timers.patch is vital. Without that timers are broken and cpu is super slow.
Regards, Roman
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