Date:	Mon, 2 Mar 2015 20:43:26 +0000
From:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Matt Porter <mporter@...sulko.com>
Cc:	Linux ARM Kernel List <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Devicetree List <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
	Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@...aro.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Sascha Hauer <kernel@...gutronix.de>,
	Rabeeh Khoury <rabeeh@...id-run.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: dts: hummingboard: enable pcf8523 rtc for i2eX

On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 03:25:40PM -0500, Matt Porter wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 07:49:08PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> > It's a bit like the MMC stuff, I'm still carrying Olof's solution for
> > the SDIO wifi/bt power and reset control stuff, and I'm not at present
> > intending to do anything with it other than continue forward-porting it.
> > I'm not interested in wasting free time trying to re-work that to suit
> > some other solution, especially as people couldn't settle on a solution
> > when I /did/ have an interest in it (not that I have much interest in
> > wifi or BT - I tend to prefer old fashioned wired connections.  It also
> > doesn't help that the Broadcom driver seemed to be very flakey with
> > brcm4329 hardware for quite some time.)
> > 
> > Anyway, you can find all my kernel patches in a suitably trimmed version
> > of the above URL, and on http://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/cgit/ is a huge pile
> > of effort I put into an accelerated X server with etnaviv and /my/ kernel
> > version of etnaviv drm, complete with Xv support.
> 
> Excellent, so I feel like you ultimately giving me mixed messages here.

Yes, I am - partly because I don't know what to do with many of the
patches I seem to be endlessly carrying (which depresses me).  I look
back to the days when I could be sure of completely emptying my tree
at each merge window, something which /never/ happens anymore.

> You said you need to take care of this licensing issue and I think you
> implied you'd take care of the audio and rtc stuff as you have that
> patch in your backlog.

As you may have seen, I've mailed out the licensing patch, and I've
also mailed out two patches - one for PWM stuff and the second one
being the RTC change broken out from my sgtl5000 hacks patch.

I've also cut a v4.0-rc1 patch set, in the usual diff.bz2, tar.bz2,
and separate patch forms which include those three patches.

> However, sounds like you've given up on pushing
> the bigger things upstream given the problem with getting agreement
> on those pieces. Are you just going to be submitting the
> less controversial portions like the audio and dts updates? My goal for
> HB initially is just to have all the low-hanging fruit (like rtc and audio)
> working on mainline...besides the stuff that's already there.

RTC is the easiest bit of the problem, as you've discovered it's just
a matter of uncommenting the bit in DT.  (It's even better if you have
a battery to plug into the little connector!)

Audio needs more than just DT changes, and there's recently been some
SGTL5000 patches submitted which change the way power is controlled
in the SGTL5000.  I don't yet know whether those patches solve the
problems I was seeing with the kernel powering down the SGTL5000's
internal regulator, thereby making the device totally inaccessible
until the next power cycle or not.

Whether I'll get a chance to look at that this week or not, I don't
know... (see my privately shared G+ status from yesterday, which
people in my G+ circles should be able to see.)

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