That patch likely won't go upstream.
OTOH, how important is support below TO3?
TO1 won't even boot on Freescale's BSP, IIRC. AFAICT, Freescale isn't testing their BSP on TO2 if you take into account bugs like LP # 615722 [1] that caused bricking of Babbage 2.5 boards. And new HW is all TO3 and so is all known production HW. We only have a few TO2 boards now those will get rapidly get discarded when we get newer ones.
So, IMHO, enable NEON support and add to release-notes that TO1/2 is not supported.
[1]. https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-fsl-imx51/+bug/615722
On 10 Sep 01, Loïc Minier wrote:
Thanks Bryan; Amit, what's your take on upstream TO1/TO2 support and on upstreaming this?
On Wed, Sep 01, 2010, Bryan Wu wrote:
Exactly, That's a silicon issue of TO1 and TO2, but Freescale fixed it in TO3+. Here is the NEON patch: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/ubuntu-lucid.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=60...
You guys can find the whole story in the BugLink. And I'm afraid this patch is just a workaround and Freescale won't support TO1/TO2 anymore. So it might be for upstream.
Thanks,