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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/5] ARM: orion5x/dove/mv78xx0 multiplatform
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    Hi Andrew,

    On mer., nov. 25 2015, Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> wrote:

    > On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 04:49:12PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
    >> I've posted these before and now gotten around to a rebase and
    >> want to include them in the arm-soc next/multiplatform branch for
    >> 4.5.
    >>
    >> Originally the plan for these platforms was to convert all of
    >> them to DT and use only mach-mvebu. That has not happened,
    >> so I would do it this way instead so we can at least have
    >> them in a single kernel.
    >>
    >> Let me know if there are any concerns or objections.
    >
    > Maybe we should just remove mv78xx0? It has been at least two years
    > since we have heard of anybody using it, outside of Debians now
    > replaced build system. And its IRQ handling is broken apparently.

    Actually I was about to remove it last year but an mv78200 user came
    with a bug fix on the gpio driver used by this platform:
    http://marc.info/?l=linux-arm-kernel&m=140639461108781&w=2

    While he seemed interseted to use a mainline kernel we don't have any
    news for one year:
    http://marc.info/?l=linux-arm-kernel&m=141391779222342&w=2

    Gregory

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    Gregory Clement, Free Electrons
    Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
    development, consulting, training and support.
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