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

[Stephan Gerhold]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 01:03:50PM -0500, Tom Rini wrote:
> 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.

Thank you! I thought marking it as RFC is appropriate since I'm adding a
new SoC and this is my first U-Boot patch. But it is working fine,
so unless there are comments it should be good to go :)

Thanks,
Stephan