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    SubjectRe: [PATCHv4] dmaengine: Add support for BCM2835
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    2013/11/14 Tomasz Figa <tomasz.figa@gmail.com>:
    > 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.

    That sounds great! I never heard about that.
    Maybe some day it really happens that Raspbian uses the upstream kernel :-)


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