On Tuesday 14 January 2014 04:13 PM, Nishanth Menon wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Santosh Shilimkar > <santosh.shilimkar@xxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> ok.. some sort of Linaro thing about which I have no background about >>> - but dont really care in this context. >>> >> Nothing related Linaro. Its just that platforms are supporting ARM BE >> mode and Linaro folks had working patches for Panda. So I suggested >> to get them on the lists. > > I tend to think -> is this with OFF mode and CPUidle completely > working? All context save and restore works with this? on HS and GP > devices with BE mode builds? works on SDP4430,60 variations, > considered reuse with AM43xx which could use parts of that logic? > > I mean to indicate that terms like "works on panda" tends always to be relative. > Fair enough. > It is nice to see it as a proof of concept, but I'd hate to see some > dead code lying around in kernel and folks blindly following suit and > introducing macros for new assembly for a feature that in practice > just one group of folks care about and creates additional burden for > rest of folks trying to keep that functionality going as we jump from > one "device tree" style churn to another "framework"? Not to mean that > good features should be kept away.. but personally, I could not find > convincing arguments in this case.. > I haven't looked at patch myself but as you pointed out if it adds dead code and makes the code un-readable then probably that something we shouldn't merge. Regards, Santosh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
