3.14 Fedora ARM kernel status

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With 3.14.1 out Josh and Justin are preparing to land the 3.14 kernel
into Fedora 20. So what does it mean in terms of ARM on Fedora. Well
it's an evolution. There's of course the usual raft of new devices and
some new SoCs, and best of all lots of improvements in support for
existing devices. Even the return of some old favourites! Generally
from the stash of devices Paul, I and others have that get regularly
tested things are looking pretty good with 3.14.

New SoCs and device support:
* Tegra 4/K1 support has been enabled. For 3.14 this doesn't mean much
as there's not a wide level of devices out there that we ship device
tree blobs for but it's a good preparation for 3.15 as we should have
pretty reasonable support for the nice new Tegra K1 dev board!
* TI devices: The 3.14 finally brings working support for the OMAP5
EVM board, this will improve further in 3.15 but it boots and
generally works. It also adds support for the original BeagleBone and
the USB is now finally all back for the Beagle-XM devices so they go
back into the fully working list! Also the DT bits for the Overo
devices has started to land so if is interested in those I'd love
feedback from people with those devices.
* Freescale i.MX: To this lovely growing list we add initial support
for the various Cubox-i devices and the hummingboard. Still no HDMI
support but here's hoping for 3.15
* Xilinx Zynq 7000: The SD controller has finally landed for this
which means they should be bootable to login but from there I'm not
sure the status of the rest of the support. We ship DT for the
zynq-zc702, zynq-zc706 and zynq-zed devices so if you've got one of
those and have time to test feedback would be welcome.

Interesting bugs fixed:
Nothing particularly exciting comes to mind here. The fix for the
Beagle-XM usb hub power up is nice, as was the final config option for
the BeagleBone White. There's obviously a deluge of other ARM driver
fixes and improvements (PTP high precision time support for modular
CPSW ethernet on the BeagleBone's anyone?).

Outstanding bugs and issues:
So this is really the list of items I have outstanding for 3.14 so
that I can spin some new images. Feedback on any of these and anything
I might not be aware of would be very useful.

* OMAP DRM display. In 3.11 a new display framework landed for the
OMAP DRM driver and in 3.12 the old one was dropped. This broke X on
devices like the Pandaboard for 3.12+ kernels. I know roughly the
problematic area but I just need to get the cycles to debug this. Any
help is welcome.
* Serial over USB. While this isn't a kernel bug but rather just needs
me to hack together some scripts it's a blocker for easy OOTB support
for devices like the BeagleBone Black
* Tegra DRM display. After a re-write it's back and modular again in
3.14. Just need to ensure it's working and ready to go
* Testing... testing... testing :-)

That's mostly all I have on my list. If there's anything I'm not aware
of please do let me know and I'll endevour to help out where possible.
In particular I'm very interested in boot issues for devices that
would would be supportable with new ARM images based on 3.14. From the
3.11 kernel that F-20 GA shipped with there's been a lot of change and
improvements, and while non boot enhancements are easy to do with a
"yum update" issues with boot aren't quite so easy to deal with!
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