[Activity] Kernel WG Weekly Status report for week ending 2012-01-13

[Mounir Bsaibes]

Enclosed  please find the link to the Weekly Status & Individual Activity
reports
for the kernel  working group for the week ending 2012-01-13

== Weekly Status Report ==
https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/Kernel/Status/2012-01-12
<https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/Kernel/Status/2012-01-12>
== Individual Activity Report ==
https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/Kernel/ActivityReports/2012-01-06
<https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/Kernel/ActivityReports/2012-01-06>
== Summary ==
(For more details, please see the Status report or the  Individual Activity
report above)

* Sub-teams
   The KWG has re-organized into sub-teams, links to the teams' pages
(which are still under construction)
   can be reached from https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/Kernel.

* Kernel Release
   Andrey Konvalov is handling the Linaro baseline kernel release from now
on.
   He has a tracking branch setup
(http://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=people/ynk/linux-linaro-tracking.git)<about:blank>
   that is currently on 3.2 and has a number of 3.3 patches he will be
merging for the 12.01 release
   including updates to DT, sched_mc, and pinmux. Expect a kernel release
on Jan 19th.

* Pinctrl
 * Linusw sent a pull request for the top of the pinctrl branch that has
matured in linux-next to Torvalds
 * PXA is very mature and was merged on top of LinusW devel branch, but did
not make it into this merge window.
 * Work on pinctrl binding  to DT  is progressing, extensive discussions on
how to add DT binding for pinctrl drivers.

* Device Tree
 * Submitted patch for a new lcd power control driver with device tree
support.
 * Submitted device tree support patch for generic power domains.
 * Submitted device tree support patch for Samsung display controller.
 * Reviewed imx pinctrl patch series from Aisheng, and had some extensive
discussion on
   how we should add DT binding for pinctrl drivers.

* Android
 * Planning to submit patch queue that adds an android alarmtimer driver,
which is
   mended to use the upstreamed alarmtimer code, to staging,
 * Submitted talk on Android kernel patch status for ELC
 * Sent a few iterations of the patches to evdev to allow monotonic
timestamps to be used (required for ICS).

* imx  maintenance
  * Collected a number of imx tty/serial patches and sent them to Greg for
3.3 merge window.
  * Collected a couple of imx6 PM fixup patches from Eric Miao
  * Reviewed a number of imx6  related patches
  * Sent the clk-prepare series to fix mutex locking issue while moving,
one step towards common-clk frame work
  * Sent a patch to use CHIPID register to detect soc between imx23 andimx28
  * Tested the patch from Fabio Estevam adding audio support intomxs_defconfig

Best regards,
Mounir

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Mounir Bsaibes
Project Manager

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