Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Mar 2006 22:36:52 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2]Blackfin archtecture patche for 2.6.16 |
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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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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