Messages in this thread | | | From | Tomasz Figa <> | Subject | Re: [PATCHv4] dmaengine: Add support for BCM2835 | Date | Thu, 14 Nov 2013 17:23:08 +0100 |
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On Thursday 14 of November 2013 17:14:31 Florian Meier wrote: > >> >> I am becoming desperate anyway that this migration will ever fully > >> >> take place.... > >> > > >> > Why not? It's just a matter of people like you working on this (and > >> > addressing some review comments ;)). > >> > >> The most common comment about this is that people will not put effort in > >> the upstream kernel as long as there is no comfortable way for debugging > >> in the upstream kernel (i.e. at least USB support)....... > > > > Right, you need USB to have ethernet working. Still, IMHO UART (for > > console) + ethernet (for file transfer or NFS root) is the reasonable > > setup allowing you to debug further drivers in a comfortable way. > > I am fine with UART and switching SD cards :-) > But apparently this is not generally accepted.
Still, isn't some work on USB support for RPi already going on? I believe Matt Porter (now on Cc) has been working on unifying dwc2 host-mode driver with Samsung s3c-hsotg device-mode driver (for the same IP) to get full OTG support on all applicable platforms.
Best regards, Tomasz
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