Greetings,
Enclosed you'll find a link to the agenda, minutes and actions from the
Linaro kernel working group weekly meeting of December 13, 2010.
https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/KernelConsolidation/Meetings/2010-12-13
== Summary ==
* Reviewed Freescale BSP. Many drivers are close to being upstreamable.
* eMMC performance improvement, initial numbers shows 5% performance gains for large writes and 10% performance gains for large reads.
* USB patches for 8500 have been accepted into Greg KH's tree, and Felipe Balbi's tree.
* u-boot is in the final phases of the 2010-12 release. Patch from last week (environment code would incorrectly report correctable errors) accepted in mainline.
* Working RTC issues: timer list and timer queue which are precursors to getting the Android alarms upstreamed. Patches in -tip slated for 2.6.38. LWN article for timers and alarms.
* Working IRQ code in core code in support of virtual IRQ. Working on QEMU model of Versatile Express and the Nvidia Tegra (Serial port and eMMC). Dusting off u-boot work that John Rigby has done so that device tree is passed correctly to kernel. Kernel configuration management solution in the works -- "Kconfig fragment". Configuration process loads an alternative per-board Kconfig file that sets defaults for Kconfig, and then sets up with the full Kconfig, so that you can have definitions set up for a family of SoCs or boards.
* Looked at gitdm tool, considering sending in a patch to list Linaro people as belonging to Linaro instead of to whatever gitdm currently accounts them to.
* Finished kexec() blueprint specification, will get it reviewed next.
* Progress on RCU priority boosting, additional energy-management tasks and scalability tasks look to be easily handled.
Regards,
Mounir