From: swarren@wwwdotorg•org (Stephen Warren)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: add support for BCM2708/BCM2835 and Raspberry Pi
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 19:38:11 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50495003.500@wwwdotorg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG-w=x77y6ykh3FcyTtVAN85eOk1RP2CZ=ZG-_1091i5jYDF2A@mail.gmail.com>
On 09/06/2012 10:53 AM, Seth Jennings wrote:
> (sorry for the dup Stephen, forgot to reply all :-/)
>
> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 12:07 AM, Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg•org> wrote:
>>
>> The BCM2708 is an ARM SoC from Broadcom. It is the primary SoC in a
>> series which contains the BCM2835 amongst other variants. This patch
>> adds very basic support for this series of SoCs, under the BCM2708 name.
>
> Great work! I'm glad to see this heading upstream :)
>
>> This series was extracted from git://github.com/lp0/linux.git branch
>> rpi-next or rpi-linear from 3-4 months ago, and significantly stripped
>> down and modified since.
>
> I've used Simon's tree before and it will boot up all the way with UART
> support (no graphics, usb, network). I also think it has a fully
> populated device
> tree. Why, in particular, did you strip it down?
Mainly because not stripping it down would be a huge patch or set of
patches to review at once. The smaller and more basic we start, the
easier it is to get reviewed/applied etc., and then build on incrementally.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-07 1:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-06 5:07 [PATCH] ARM: add support for BCM2708/BCM2835 and Raspberry Pi Stephen Warren
2012-09-06 9:04 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-06 9:47 ` Domenico Andreoli
2012-09-06 15:46 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-08 21:56 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-09-09 0:30 ` Domenico Andreoli
2012-09-09 1:34 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-09 0:52 ` Olof Johansson
2012-09-09 1:16 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-09 8:46 ` Imre Kaloz
2012-09-07 2:23 ` Stephen Warren
2012-09-07 4:04 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-06 16:53 ` Seth Jennings
2012-09-06 22:10 ` Simon Arlott
2012-09-07 0:56 ` Seth Jennings
2012-09-07 1:52 ` Stephen Warren
2012-09-08 17:12 ` popcornmix
2012-09-08 17:48 ` Stephen Warren
2012-09-08 17:53 ` popcornmix
2012-09-07 1:38 ` Stephen Warren [this message]
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