[maemo-leste] [PATCH] nokia_rx51: disable obsolete VIDEO config

[Lokesh Vutla]

On 24/10/20 5:49 pm, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 12:46:45PM +0200, Merlijn Wajer wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 24/10/2020 12:06, Pali Rohár wrote:
>>> On Wednesday 21 October 2020 08:47:02 Tom Rini wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 11:08:37AM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
>>>>> On Tuesday 20 October 2020 10:17:07 Tom Rini wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 11:30:51AM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
>> <snip>
>>>>> Yes, there is mmc issue, I have found which commit caused it and
>>>>> because nobody was able to debug / understand what is happening I have
>>>>> sent revert patch, which fixes that issue, until somebody solve issue in
>>>>> original patch.
>>>>>
>>>>> But I do not see any progress on either applying revert patch or fixing
>>>>> original patch.
>>>>>
>>>>> And I do not like to have custom patch in my local branch (and
>>>>> periodically rebasing it) as it just another layer of complication.
>>>>>
>>>>> Could we move somehow in this issue?
>>>>
>>>> No, it's probably stuck until you can fix the problem or otherwise add a
>>>> "quirk" for your platform.  What does Linux do in this case?
>>>
>>> Well, I provided all requested information, just I'm lacking any new
>>> response from developers / maintainers of particular code.
>>>
>>> I have already identified problematic place / commit and I have already
>>> sent revert patch which fixing this issue.
>>>
>>> Tom, what else do you need?
>>>
>>> I see the main issue now that nobody reviewed / merged patch and nobody
>>> responded to emails which I have sent more then 2 months ago.
>>
>> I would like to add my voice for reverting the patches that break the
>> support, and work from that point to improve support and eventually
>> migrate to DT.
>>
>> Maemo Leste has a lot of Nokia N900 users, and this is blocking us from
>> moving to mainline u-boot. Is it possible to get the opinion of the
>> original patch authors on this?
>>
>> I am set up with a serial module on the Nokia N900, so I can help
>> provide specific debug info.
> 
> Let me add in the TI folks that might be able to look in to any of this
> today.  But the next problem is that the rx51 needs to be converted to
> use DM in U-Boot.  It's throwing up a ton of "you need to convert to X
> by <some release in 2019> or this board may be removed" warnings at
> build.  I really really want to see some of this start to be addressed.


IIUC, the breakage is happening in non-DM code. I don't think non-DM code is
maintained anymore for mmc. As Tom suggested we should start using DM for Nokia RX51

Thanks and regards,
Lokesh
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