[RFC PATCH 0/5] arm: Restore minimal support for ST-Ericsson U8500 SoC

[Tom Rini]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 05:47:07PM +0100, Stephan Gerhold wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> On Sat, Jan 04, 2020 at 06:45:14PM +0100, Stephan Gerhold wrote:
> > This patch series restores minimal U-Boot support for
> > the ST-Ericsson NovaThor U8500 SoC.
> > 
> > Previous support for U8500 was removed in
> > commit 68282f55b846 ("arm: Remove unused ST-Ericsson u8500 arch")
> > since none of the boards were converted to generic boards
> > before the deadline.
> > 
> > The motivation for adding the SoC and board is explained in
> >   - Patch 3 ("arm: Add support for ST-Ericsson U8500 SoC") and
> >   - Patch 5 ("board: Add new Samsung "stemmy" board based on ST-Ericsson U8500")
> > 
> > I have additional patches for MMC, USB, display and the "stemmy"
> > board, that configure it to provide an Android fastboot interface
> > with similar functionality as the original Samsung bootloader.
> > Some of the patches require some additional work, so I thought
> > it is easier to start with some minimal changes first (only UART).
> > 
> > I think this makes the patch series quite straightforward,
> > with only ~225 new lines of C code, plus device tree and documentation.
> > The only patch that stands out with ~1.8k lines is the device tree
> > import, directly copied (without modification) from the Linux kernel.
> > 
> 
> Since we are approaching the end of the merge window,
> I was wondering if there is anything I can do to get this patch set
> applied for v2020.04?

Since you had marked it as RFC, I had marked it as such in patchwork and
overlooked it.  I'll take a look soon, thanks.

-- 
Tom
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