Hi Linus,
On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 4:20 AM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 3:45 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<glaubitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
That said there are a three things that people should really be doing if they
want to keep their pet archs/subarchs around as good community
members, and they are in essence to:
2. Migrate existing drivers to newly appeared and
appropriate subsystems (I think there are some hacky heartbeat LED
drivers down in arch/* for example) there is also the feature matrix
core maintainers like and which appears if you type
Documentation/features/list-arch.sh <archname>
would be nice if you work on them if you can support them!
Or at least take a look.
The choir is listening ;-)
For Amiga, that would require writing a real GPIO driver (modifying
gpio-mmio?) for the CIAs, and converting its users (amiflop, amijoy,
amimouse, parport_amiga, amiserial, and dmasound_paula) from direct CIA
register access to GPIO access (mctrl_gpio for amiserial)).
Note that the heartbeat LED is shared by heartbeat and audio.
An interim solution might be to just write a simple gpio driver for the
single CIA pin driving the heartbeat LED, allowing the user to set up
ledtrig-heartbeat.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
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