[linux-yocto] [linux-yocto v5.2] Add the support for the Marvell cn96xx SoC

[Bruce Ashfield]

On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 3:39 AM Kevin Hao <kexin.hao at windriver.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Bruce,
>
> This patch series adds the kernel and kernel meta for the support of the
> Marvell cn96xx SoC support. These patches are almost the same as what I
> have sent for the linux-yocto-dev [1] [2]. The major difference between

I assume that you still also want the linux-yocto-dev changes merged ?
That is mhy plan.

> them is that the BPHY driver is added. The BPHY driver handles ioctl to
> set/clear irq handlers in EL3 using SMC calls. The purpose of this is to
> handle some BPHY interrupts in userspace directly. In order to support this,
> we have to make some ugly hack to some core files like arch/arm64/mm/context.c
> or arch/arm64/mm/context.c, but the change is pretty simple and are protected
> with the specific kernel option.

perfect. Sounds safe for standard/base, so I'll look at merging it there.

Bruce

>
> [1] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/linux-yocto/2019-August/007886.html
> [2] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/linux-yocto/2019-August/007887.html
>
> Thanks,
> Kevin



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