[Letux-kernel] jz4730

[H. Nikolaus Schaller]

Hi Paul,

> Am 20.06.2020 um 21:42 schrieb Paul Boddie <paul at boddie.org.uk>:
> 
> On Monday, 15 June 2020 14:54:19 CEST H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
>> Hi Paul,
>> I am in the middle of rebasing the letux kernel patch sets to v5.8-rc1
>> but this one fails severely:
>> 
>> https://git.goldelico.com/?p=letux-kernel.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/letux/
>> jz4730-v2
>> 
>> Unfortunately I do not have the time to trace what has changed and make a
>> simple fix like for other patch sets.
>> 
>> So maybe can you please take a look at it?
> 
> So far, I have reviewed the CGU/clock, TCU and pinctrl functionality, made 
> some fixes to the earlier work, and it compiles fine in a branch rooted on the 
> v5.8-rc1 tag in the torvalds/linux repository.

Great. Then it should likely also build fine within the Letux repo (since it
is also based on linus/master - that is how I call it :)

> 
> I'm going to try and work through the other functionality. Some things are now 
> obsolete: for example, the GPIO driver is now incorporated into pinctrl. There 
> will also be a need to fix up the device tree files, with jz4730.dtsi probably 
> being in fairly good shape, but with mipsbook_400.dts likely to need a bit 
> more work.
> 
> I'm also aiming to try and incorporate my recently acquired knowledge about 
> HDMI and the LCD controller to make a recent kernel work in these respects on 
> the CI20. Hopefully, I will make some progress there as well.

As soon as you have something to pick as letux/jz4730-v4 for the Letux tree,
please let me know.

Best regards,
Nikolaus