Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] hwmon: Add StarFive JH7100 temperature sensor | From | Guenter Roeck <> | Date | Sun, 1 Aug 2021 13:29:50 -0700 |
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On 8/1/21 1:19 PM, Emil Renner Berthing wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jul 2021 at 19:05, Emil Renner Berthing <kernel@esmil.dk> wrote: >> On Wed, 28 Jul 2021 at 18:54, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote: >>> On 7/26/21 10:18 AM, Emil Renner Berthing wrote: >>>> This adds a driver for the temperature sensor on the JH7100, a RISC-V >>>> SoC by StarFive Technology Co. Ltd., and most likely also the upcoming >>>> JH7110 version. >>>> >>>> The SoC is used on the BeagleV Starlight board: >>>> https://github.com/beagleboard/beaglev-starlight >>>> >>>> Support for this SoC is not yet upstreamed, but is actively worked on, >>>> so it should only be a matter of time before that happens. >>>> >>> >>> Hmm, makes me wonder if I should apply the series now or later, >>> when the chip is actually supported by the kernel. Comments/thoughts ? >>> >>> Guenter >> >> I'd of course love if it was applied now. That would at least mean >> fewer patches to rebase when keeping the beaglev patches [1] up to >> date, and I'd be very surprised if SoC support doesn't make it >> upstream eventually. But I'd also fully understand the position that >> this only makes sense to add when support for the SoC is upstream too. >> I'm adding Drew, as he might have something to say about this. > > Hi Guenter, > > Things have changed. The BeagleBoard.org foundation is no longer > planning to make any further boards using the JH7100 or upcoming > JH7110 SoCs from StarFive. I still think support for the JH7100 will > make it upstream eventually, but I'm no longer confident enough to > recommend merging this before there are more concrete plans for the > SoC. So thanks for the reviews. I'll repost it when I think it's time > to consider it for upstream again. >
Thanks for the update.
Guenter
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