Messages in this thread | | | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Date | Mon, 2 Jul 2018 17:28:08 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] dma: ste_dma40: Remove VLA usage |
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On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 4:22 PM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 11:22 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote: > > > - Nobody uses this driver in practice, as the hardware platform > > was a dead end > > Depends what you mean with dead end. > > The hardware was deployed in a few million handsets from Samsung > and Sony. > > Some have been picked up as targets for PostmarketOS: > https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S_Advance_(samsung-i9070) > https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_SIII_mini_(samsung-i8190) > > So it is no more dead end than anything else discontinued, and it > has a living community who want it suppored by the mainline > kernel if possible.
Mixup with SuperH-based ST40?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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