On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Heiko StÃbner <mmind@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > [please keep the cc to Alexander, thanks] > > Am Mittwoch 05 Januar 2011 schrieb Belisko Marek: >> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Heiko StÃbner <mmind@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > last words >> > ========== >> > >> > So if anyone more experienced with kernel development could lend us a >> > hand with porting (and cleaning) any of this stuff I would be really >> > grateful. >> >> Don't want to say I'm more experienced but can help with cleaning or >> porting u-boot adaptions or whatever. Just lemme know. > > The basic problem is essentially threefold: > > - the stuff has to be ported accross 4 years of kernel development > - the implementations of the s3c-architecture in the vendor kernel and the > mailine kernel don't seem to be related at all or were changed much Same for friendlyarm. Mainline differs a lot from kernel what provide friendlyarm with devices. Fortunately lot of drivers works with mainline fine. > - one would need a sane scheme on how to handle the differences between the > submodels. At the moment they use clauses like "if modelX || modelY ... else > ... endif" where each respective model is listed This could be board dependent or all boards are same? > > > The soundchip parts for example look reasonably clean, i.e. they don't have > that many real customizations in them. Mostly stuff thats commented out > already. > > Implementing the power/regulator stuff might be easy (or not) because similar > chips seem to be in the kernel i.e. charger bq24022 in kernel vs. bq24075 in > the devices. But one would need the knowledge about these things :-) . > [Also many tps6502XX regulator drivers are in the mainline kernel but not the > specific TPS650240] Not experienced in regulator but if similar drivers exist in kernel it's just question of passing some platform data ;). Do you have some spare devices for testing? > thanks, marek -- as simple and primitive as possible ------------------------------------------------- Marek Belisko - OPEN-NANDRA Freelance Developer Ruska Nova Ves 219 | Presov, 08005 Slovak Republic Tel: +421 915 052 184 skype: marekwhite icq: 290551086 web: http://open-nandra.com _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
