linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2 5/6] x86: add CONFIG_ARM

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Message-ID: <20120701111106.GE16319@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Sun, 1 Jul 2012 12:11:06 +0100
From:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Alessandro Rubini <rubini@...dd.com>
Cc:	hpa@...or.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	giancarlo.asnaghi@...com, alan@...ux.intel.com, x86@...nel.org,
	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, arnd@...db.de,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 5/6] x86: add CONFIG_ARM_AMBA, selected by STA2X11

On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 01:04:54PM +0200, Alessandro Rubini wrote:
> > I think the answer is... those primecell drivers need fixing in some way.
> 
> Ok. I'm going to attack them and make a report.
> 
> > As for PL08x, which depends on asm/hardware/pl080.h,
> 
> We have pl080 under PCI, so we have patches in the queue to fix this
> header problem.  I just didn't submit them yet, but now they are part
> of this fixup effort and I'll check them over.
> 
> > Note also that hpa has only reported the first errors he encountered, so
> > there may be more, and that's somehting which needs checking.
> 
> Yes. I'm going to make a status report soon, counting and classifying
> all errors I encounter when enabling all amba drivers under x86.

Note that I have a *big* pile of changes to the PL08x stuff sitting in
my tree - which is waiting for DMA (and OMAP specifically) to stabilize
before I push them out into linux-next.  They've been posted to the ARM
and OMAP lists several times already in the last month or two.
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