[ACTIVITY] Week of July 04

[Nicolas Pitre]

== Upstream oriented activities ==


* Posted the following patch series to contribute to the single kernel 
image goal:
  * removal of hardcoded absolute physical address in mdesc->boot_params
  * removal of compile time usage of ARM_DMA_ZONE_SIZE
  * removal of a few StrongARM cache-related build time constants
  * removal of many arch/arm/*/include/mach/memory.h instances
  * removal of more unused/incomplete ARM machine code

* Processed feedback on the above from the mailing list (fixes, acked-by 
tags, etc.)

* Review of the following patches and series:
  * poisoning initmem when it is freed
  * introduction of a led trigger for CPU activity
  * linker layouts reorganization
  * support for XZ compressed kernels

* Discussion of a couple design issues with the Thumb2 kprobe 
implementation.
 
* Usual mailing list monitoring.

== Linaro kernel activities ==

* Merged the following to linaro-2.6.39:
  * OMAP: Overo: remove duplicate call to overo_ads7846_init()
  * mmc: documentation of mmc non-blocking request usage and design.
  * omap2 overo fix video issue

* Reverted "arm: omap4: support pmu" from linaro-2.6.39 as this is 
apparently causing boot hangs for some people, and no progress has been 
made towards a fix after a week.