Re: OMAP support in mainline?

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* Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> [080917 09:55]:
> * Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@xxxxxxxxx> [080916 23:32]:
> > Jarkko Nikula <jarkko.nikula@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > 
> > > On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:25:06 -0700
> > > "ext Tony Lindgren" <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hopefully we'll get all core 24xx and 34xx files integrated soon. But
> > >> then there are tons of board-*.c files missing from mainline that
> > >> probably need to be cleaned up a bit. 
> > >> 
> > > I think one good measure for this whole work when one can can run
> > > Beagle or Overo with mainline kernel.
> > 
> > I really would like to run N800/N810 with mainline kernel (ie. with
> > Linus' tree), at least get it booting. For example, sound and
> > bluetooth are not that important for me right now. What kind of
> > cleanup is needed for that?
> 
> Well here are few things that come to mind for N8X0:
> 
> - drivers/cbus needs to be cleaned and submitted via LKML
> 
> - arch/arm/mach-omap2/board-n800*.c maybe should be called board-n8x0*.c
>   instead?
> 
> - blizzard_enable_clocks() needs to create a virtual clock so that
>   drivers/video/omap/ can just call clk_enable/disable(). Other board
>   files may need this done too, at least nokia770*.c has the same
>   problem

Oh, one more thing: All the ATAG_OMAP data needs to be set in the
board-*.c files as platform_data, omap specific ATAGs won't be going
to mainline as discussed earlier on linux-arm-kernel.

If any ATAGs are needed, such as for the serial console, it needs to
be a generic ATAG for whole arch/arm.

Tony
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