On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 10:38:49AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Greg, Simon, Magnus,
>
> This patch series adds board staging support for the Renesas R-Mobile A1
> (r8a7740) based Armadillo-800 EVA board. It allows to support the frame
> buffer device for the on-board LCD (which isn't supported by a DT-aware
> driver yet) in modern DT-based multi-platform kernels.
>
> The board staging area was introduced last year to allow continuous
> upstream in-tree development and integration of platform devices. It
> helps developers integrate devices as platform devices for device
> drivers that only provide platform device bindings. This in turn allows
> for incremental development of both hardware feature support and DT
> binding work in parallel.
>
> The goal is to complete the move to ARM multi-platform kernels for all
> shmobile platforms, and drop the existing board files
> (arch/arm/mach-shmobile/board-*). Once this series is accepted, more
> than 3000 lines of legacy armadillo board code and r8a7740 SoC code can
> be removed.
>
> This series consists of 5 parts:
> - Patch 1 re-enables compilation of the board staging area, which was
> disabled after a compile breakage, but has been fixed in the mean
> time,
> - Path 2 moves initialization of staging board code to an earlier
> moment, as currently it happens after unused PM domains are powered
> down,
> - Patches 3 and 4 (hopefully) fix the existing kzm9d board staging
> code, which was presumably "broken" by commit 9a1091ef0017c40a
> ("irqchip: gic: Support hierarchy irq domain."),
> - Patches 5 and 6 add support for registering platform devices with
> complex dependencies (clocks and PM domains), and add armadillo
> board staging code for enabling a frame buffer on the on-board LCD,
> - Patch 7 (new) adds pinctrl and gpio-hog configuration to enable the
> LCD.
>
> The first 6 patches should go in through the staging tree, the last one
> through the shmobile tree.
>
> Major changes since v1 (more detailed changelogs in the individual
> patches):
> - Add support for low/high edge/level interrupts in hwirq translation,
> - Move pinctrl and GPIO configuration from board staging code to DT,
> - Use clk_add_alias() instead of open coding.
>
> Dependencies:
> - This is against next-20150617,
> - The gpio-hog in patch 7 depends on a bug fix like "[PATCH] [RFC]
> gpio: Retry deferred GPIO hogging on pin range change"
> (https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/6/16/455). It can be applied as-is
> though.
>
> This was tested on r8a7740/armadillo.
> This was not tested on emev2/kzm9d, due to lack of hardware.
I have verified that kzm9d still boots with your patches applied on top
of renesas-devel-20150617-v4.1-rc8. I used shmobile_defconfig and
then enabled CONFIG_STAGING and in turn CONFIG_STAGING_BOARD.
Let me know if you think further testing is appropriate.
> Thanks for applying!
>
> Geert Uytterhoeven (7):
> Revert "staging: board: disable as it breaks the build"
> staging: board: Initialize staging board code earlier
> staging: board: Add support for translating hwirq to virq numbers
> staging: board: kzm9d: Translate hwirq numbers to virq numbers
> staging: board: Add support for devices with complex dependencies
> staging: board: armadillo800eva: Board staging for sh_mobile_lcdc_fb
Feel free to add:
Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
to the above.
> ARM: shmobile: armadillo800eva dts: Add pinctrl and gpio-hog for lcdc0
>
> arch/arm/boot/dts/r8a7740-armadillo800eva.dts | 13 +++
> drivers/staging/board/Kconfig | 1 -
> drivers/staging/board/Makefile | 3 +-
> drivers/staging/board/armadillo800eva.c | 105 ++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/staging/board/board.c | 136 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/staging/board/board.h | 27 ++++-
> drivers/staging/board/kzm9d.c | 10 +-
> 7 files changed, 290 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 drivers/staging/board/armadillo800eva.c
>
> --
> 1.9.1
>
> 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
>
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