On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 4:22 PM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 11:22 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > - Nobody uses this driver in practice, as the hardware platform > > was a dead end > > Depends what you mean with dead end. > > The hardware was deployed in a few million handsets from Samsung > and Sony. > > Some have been picked up as targets for PostmarketOS: > https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S_Advance_(samsung-i9070) > https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_SIII_mini_(samsung-i8190) > > So it is no more dead end than anything else discontinued, and it > has a living community who want it suppored by the mainline > kernel if possible. Mixup with SuperH-based ST40? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe dmaengine" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
