Re: Regarding Kirkwood cpu support
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 07:52:21PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> > Do you know whether there are plans to get support for this device
> > into the kernel.org Kernel? There are so many ARM devices that run
> > Linux where the support never makes it upstream - and very quickly the
> > patches become unmaintained and won't apply to the newer kernels.
>
> Yes, it will be in 2.6.30. Marvell has their own git tree at
> http://git.marvell.com/?p=orion.git;a=shortlog;h=combined
> and they typically submit their patches very quickly.
Note that the support for the CPU itself and most of the peripherals
has been in kernel.org since 2.6.27 or so -- the scheduled-for-2.6.30
additions are only a (small) board support file and the SDIO driver.
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