Items of public interest from 1:1 protocol...
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 9:22 PM, Deepak Saxena dsaxena@linaro.org wrote:
On 19 November 2012 02:03, Linus Walleij linus.walleij@linaro.org wrote:
- Intense activity on pinctrl and gpio trees, also sending a second round of pull requests for fixes to Torvalds for GPIO.
Is this work beyond what's in the two BPs below? If not, can you create BPs for sort of random maintenance work that comes up and just throw things on there as they come up? We're still trying to sort out the best way to use the BPs but there's a lot of pressure to make sure that we have good tracking of all the work we're doing.
So this has basically been just collecting patches that people send on the mailing list, ask a question, git commit --amend to add an ACK, push -next branches etc to the git servers etc. It adds up.
I don't know how to properly encode that into a blueprint without the detailing taking more time than the actual work, shall I create a blueprint named "pinctrl maintenance" and "gpio maintenance" and just push in weekly TODO items there with titles like "monitor mailing list", "extract patches", "apply patches", "push branches", "read Rothwells merge log", etc?
- Sent a patch set to move the Integrators over to the SoC bus (Lee's invention) when booting from device tree, and at the same time find a natural place to define system controller registers. This is meant as a good example of how to use the SoC bus.
-EANOTHERBUS? How does the SoC bus compare to the newly proposed Capebus. What does it offer that is not already in the platform bus?
I'm not familiar with the Capebus... This one was discussed between Lee, Greg and Arnd and they agreed that this was the way to create a container for all the peripherals on an SoC.
PPC went down the path of having an "Off-Chip Peripheral Bus" to describe devices and then threw it all away a few years ago, so wondering how this compares.
So this is an on-chip peripheral bus. It will group typically AMBA (PrimeCell) and platform devices that sit in the same die.
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Yours, Linus Walleij