From: gerg@snapgear•com (Greg Ungerer)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] ARM: ks8695: convert to generic time and clocksource
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 22:57:56 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5044A954.4000706@snapgear.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACRpkdab72Z86i21TNohS0YO=Bav7eQgHwQyXa0tXQB=0hhgAg@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Liunus,
On 09/03/2012 10:02 PM, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 8:49 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb•de> wrote:
>> On Friday 31 August 2012, Linus Walleij wrote:
>
>>> (BTW I had not clue the 68K maintainer had a platform like
>>> this, fun!)
>>
>> Note that this platform is one of those we talked about removing
>> from the kernel for potentially being completely unused.
>
> This clock stuff was a lackmus test from my side. The idea
> was that if noone tested the patches I would instead
> propose a patch deleting the platform.
>
> Guess what: Greg jumps out like jack-in-the-box.
That is annoying :-)
> I suspect
> some of these platforms may have more users than we
> believe.
I know the guys at www.opengear.com are still building hardware around
the KS8695. And they update to modern kernels from time to time. So its
not completely obsolete yet. I have some SnapGear boards based around it
too, though they went out of production about 2 years ago.
Regards
Greg
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-03 12:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-29 18:27 [PATCH 4/4] ARM: ks8695: convert to generic time and clocksource Linus Walleij
2012-08-31 6:20 ` Greg Ungerer
2012-08-31 23:43 ` Linus Walleij
2012-09-02 11:45 ` Greg Ungerer
2012-09-02 18:49 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-03 4:41 ` Greg Ungerer
2012-09-03 11:15 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-03 12:51 ` Greg Ungerer
2012-09-03 12:02 ` Linus Walleij
2012-09-03 12:57 ` Greg Ungerer [this message]
2012-09-03 13:24 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-03 14:55 ` Andrew Victor
2012-09-05 5:05 ` Olof Johansson
2012-09-07 5:42 ` Greg Ungerer
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