Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-07 Thread luke.leighton
On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 12:09 AM, Dennis Lan (dlan) wrote: > > > On Saturday, June 8, 2013, luke.leighton wrote: >> >> right - too many people contributed to this, input from jon smirl, >> wookie, maxime, tomasz, henrik, i've made a start here and will >> continue editing: this is notes for me to p

Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-07 Thread Dennis Lan (dlan)
On Saturday, June 8, 2013, luke.leighton wrote: > right - too many people contributed to this, input from jon smirl, > wookie, maxime, tomasz, henrik, i've made a start here and will > continue editing: this is notes for me to put forward an agenda for > discussion: > > http://hands.com/~lkcl/allw

Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-07 Thread luke.leighton
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 11:08 PM, Maxime Ripard wrote: > On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 07:26:49PM +0100, luke.leighton wrote: >> maxime: we need to talk :) >> >> please tell me in 4 or 5 sentences what you've managed to do so far, >> expanding a little on what thomas says below, more specifically what

Re: cross-compilation pango

2013-06-07 Thread peter green
Lennart Sorensen wrote: Debian in general does NOT cross compile. The official debian archive is not cross-compiled and most likely never will be. However recently arm's new 64-bit architecture (known by arm and autotools as aarch64 and by debian as arm64) has turned up on the scene. Many

Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-07 Thread Maxime Ripard
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 07:26:49PM +0100, luke.leighton wrote: > maxime: we need to talk :) > > please tell me in 4 or 5 sentences what you've managed to do so far, > expanding a little on what thomas says below, more specifically what > it achieves and/or allows rather than technically what it

Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-07 Thread luke.leighton
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 08:02:03PM +0100, luke.leighton wrote: >> well, tough. get me up to speed, *fast*. > > No, not unless you're willing to *pay* someone to spend time teaching you, there's not enough time. 2 days left. >

Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-07 Thread luke.leighton
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 7:59 PM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Maxime will reply to this in more details, but I believe the status is: > > * Interrupt controller is working. > * Clock drivers are working. > * Pinctrl is working. > * GPIO is working. > * Timer is working. > * UART is working > *

Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-07 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 8:35 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 08:18:14PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 7:26 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux >> wrote: >> > Luke Leighton on the other hand is demanding that we >> >> no demands have be

Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-07 Thread luke.leighton
right - too many people contributed to this, input from jon smirl, wookie, maxime, tomasz, henrik, i've made a start here and will continue editing: this is notes for me to put forward an agenda for discussion: http://hands.com/~lkcl/allwinner_linux_proposal.txt i'm setting a rule that each secti

RE: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-07 Thread joem
Confused yes - innocent mistake - 50% yes. I see now the posts are cc'd from arm-netbook mailing lists to many other mailing lists with different standards for noise. Apologies for not seeing that. arm-netbook list 'belongs' to luke, but generally the noise level is very low here and its aim is

Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-07 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 08:18:14PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 7:26 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux > wrote: > > Luke Leighton on the other hand is demanding that we > > no demands have been made, russell: i've informed you of an immovable > deadline which wi

Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-07 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 08:02:03PM +0100, luke.leighton wrote: > well, tough. get me up to speed, *fast*. No, not unless you're willing to *pay* someone to spend time teaching you, because you are asking to be *taught* about the current situation, so you're asking someone to do some _work_ _for_

Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-07 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 08:04:26PM +0100, luke.leighton wrote: > On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 7:54 PM, Olof Johansson wrote: > > By demanding > > a-a-ah, no demands made. " well, tough. get me up to speed, *fast*. please stop wasting time like this: get me up to speed." That is a demand. Stop tro

Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-07 Thread Tomasz Figa
On Friday 07 of June 2013 20:02:03 luke.leighton wrote: > On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Tomasz Figa wrote: > >Seeing from your posts you don't have any knowledge on how Linux kernel > > > > development works > > check back to 2004. $ git log --oneline --author="Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton"

Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 08:18:14PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 7:26 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux > wrote: > > Luke Leighton on the other hand is demanding that we > > no demands have been made, russell: i've informed you of an immovable > deadline which wi

Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-07 Thread luke.leighton
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 7:59 PM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, 7 Jun 2013 19:26:49 +0100, luke.leighton wrote: > >> > Have you noticed that it is already the case in mainline? >> >> i knew there was a little bit, but not the extent of the commits. > > Then you could probably use a b

Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-07 Thread luke.leighton
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Wookey wrote: > OK, this sounds good. Could you say who the allwinner engineers are? [cross-over: i asked him if he'd be happy to let me know privately, so i have at least some context when speaking to the Directors] > I > guess it's quite a large organisation, s

Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-07 Thread luke.leighton
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 7:54 PM, Olof Johansson wrote: > Luke, > > I want only one thing from you at this time. See below. > > > On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 11:45 AM, luke.leighton > wrote: >> but the Directors of Allwinner aren't been kept in the loop, >> here: that's my job, to get them up-to-

Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-07 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 7:26 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > Luke Leighton on the other hand is demanding that we no demands have been made, russell: i've informed you of an immovable deadline which will pass beyond which the opportunity being presented is lost. > (Linux kernel > developer

Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-07 Thread luke.leighton
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Tomasz Figa wrote: >Seeing from your posts you don't have any knowledge on how Linux kernel > development works check back to 2004. > and even on how Allwinner's cooperation with our > community looks (and seem to be completely closed to our effort of showing >

Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-07 Thread luke.leighton
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 9:22 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Thursday 06 June 2013, Maxime Ripard wrote: >> So yes, Allwinner has an evil vendor tree (c), with a solution similar yet >> inferior (because not generic enough) to the device tree, but they show >> interest on going down the mainline road

Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-07 Thread luke.leighton
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Maxime Ripard wrote: > I should also add that Allwinner not only talked to us already, oo! great! can you please [privately, not publicly] let me know who that is, so i can let the Directors know, so that they can follow up? > but also > expressed interest in

Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-07 Thread luke.leighton
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Olof Johansson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 8:13 AM, jonsm...@gmail.com wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 7:54 PM, luke.leighton >> wrote: >>> augh. ok. solutions. what are the solutions here? >> >> Luke if you really want to fix this a good solution is to

Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-07 Thread Thomas Petazzoni
Hello, On Fri, 7 Jun 2013 19:26:49 +0100, luke.leighton wrote: > > Have you noticed that it is already the case in mainline? > > i knew there was a little bit, but not the extent of the commits. Then you could probably use a bit of your time to read the kernel commit logs rather than writing h

Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-07 Thread Wookey
+++ Maxime Ripard [2013-06-06 19:28 +0200]: > Hi everyone, > > On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 09:00:00AM -0700, Olof Johansson wrote: > > Listen, Allwinner isn't working in a vacuum, believe it or not. I've > > talked to them, so has Arnd and other people working on ARM, including > > Maxime Ripard, who

Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-07 Thread Olof Johansson
Luke, I want only one thing from you at this time. See below. On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 11:45 AM, luke.leighton wrote: > but the Directors of Allwinner aren't been kept in the loop, > here: that's my job, to get them up-to-speed. The one job I would love for you to do instead of all this tr

Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-07 Thread luke.leighton
thomas i _very_ briefly spotted this when i was extremely busy yesterday, and i'm grateful to the 2 or 3 people who've given me the keywords and/or links to catch up. On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Dear Tomasz Figa, > > On Thu, 06 Jun 2013 02:01:14 +0200, Tomasz Figa w

Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-07 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 02:49:28PM +, joem wrote: > > > SoC vendors are free to join the discussion, and many SoC vendors are part > > > of the kernel community, so calling this unilateral is plain wrong. > > > > you're free to believe that, vladimir. i've explained why that > > hasn't happe

Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-07 Thread luke.leighton
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Alexandre Belloni wrote: > On 07/06/2013 10:06, luke.leighton wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Vladimir Pantelic wrote: >>> luke.leighton wrote: 3 days remaining on the clock. >>> >>> what catastrophic thing will happen when the time runs out? >> n

Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-07 Thread Stephen Warren
On 06/07/2013 02:02 AM, luke.leighton wrote: > On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux > wrote: > >> If companies are going to go off and invent the square wheel, and that >> makes *them* suffer the loss of being able to merge back into the >> mainline kernel, thereby making *the

Re: cross-compilation pango

2013-06-07 Thread Wookey
+++ Lennart Sorensen [2013-06-07 11:46 -0400]: > On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 04:34:00PM +0100, Wookey wrote: > > +++ Lennart Sorensen [2013-06-07 10:55 -0400]: > > > > > and anything using the horrors

Re: cross-compilation pango

2013-06-07 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 04:34:00PM +0100, Wookey wrote: > This is generally correct, but increasingly the base package set is > set up to cross-build. Some work is still needed on merging the > relevant fixes from ubuntu, and sorting out the cross-compiler setup > situation, but we're getting there

Re: cross-compilation pango

2013-06-07 Thread Wookey
+++ Lennart Sorensen [2013-06-07 10:55 -0400]: > Debian in general does NOT cross compile. > Cross compiling is error prone and often makefiles are not set up for it This is generally correct, but increasingly the base package set is set up to cross-build. Some work is still needed on merging t

Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-07 Thread joem
> > SoC vendors are free to join the discussion, and many SoC vendors are part > > of the kernel community, so calling this unilateral is plain wrong. > > you're free to believe that, vladimir. i've explained why that > hasn't happened, in prior messages. can we move forward, please? I prefer

Re: cross-compilation pango

2013-06-07 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 10:01:05AM +0100, Andree Tago wrote: > hello, > > i want cross-compile pango for amr , my configuration is : > > export > FONTCONFIG_CFLAGS="-I/home/achouri/pfe/sortie/libpango/fontconfig/font/include" > export > FONTCONFIG_LIBS="-L/home/achouri/pfe/sortie/libpango/fontcon

Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-07 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 08:52:43AM +0100, luke.leighton wrote: > coming back to what you said earlier: i'm formulating what to say to > allwinner [and need to pre-send something by monday so that they can > consider it before the meeting]. so far, it consists of: > > * device-tree is what the li

Re: cross-compilation pango

2013-06-07 Thread Wookey
+++ Andree Tago [2013-06-07 10:01 +0100]: >hello, >i want cross-compile pango for arm , my configuration is : >export > > FONTCONFIG_CFLAGS="-I/home/achouri/pfe/sortie/libpango/fontconfig/font/include" >export >FONTCONFIG_LIBS="-L/home/achouri/pfe/sortie/libpango/fontconfig/

Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-07 Thread Bjørn Mork
Tomasz Figa writes: > Seeing from your posts you don't have any knowledge on how Linux kernel > development works and even on how Allwinner's cooperation with our > community looks (and seem to be completely closed to our effort of showing > you the reality), so I'm not sure if you are the rig

Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-07 Thread Henrik Nordström
fre 2013-06-07 klockan 09:02 +0100 skrev luke.leighton: > ok. so. we come back to the question again: what shall i propose to > them that they consider doing, and what benefit would it be to them to > do so? Just tell them that the kernel is moving to a different configuration syntax called De

Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-07 Thread Barry Song
2013/6/7 Olof Johansson : > On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 8:13 AM, jonsm...@gmail.com wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 7:54 PM, luke.leighton >> wrote: >>> augh. ok. solutions. what are the solutions here? >> >> Luke if you really want to fix this a good solution is to have >> Allwinner join Linaro

Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-07 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 01:24:57PM +0100, luke.leighton wrote: On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 1:01 AM, Tomasz Figa wrote: I don't see any other solution here than moving all the Allwinner code to DT (as it has been suggested in this thread several times already), as th

Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-07 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 09:48:22AM +0200, Vladimir Pantelic wrote: > luke.leighton wrote: >> 3 days remaining on the clock. > > what catastrophic thing will happen when the time runs out? Maybe the world will explode into tiny small bits? Probably not. I suspect nothing of any relevance to us.

Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-07 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 10:40:37AM +0200, Vladimir Pantelic wrote: > luke.leighton wrote:> so. > > > > coming back to what you said earlier: i'm formulating what to say to > > allwinner [and need to pre-send something by monday so that they can > > consider it before the meeting]. so far, it c

cross-compilation pango

2013-06-07 Thread Andree Tago
hello, i want cross-compile pango for amr , my configuration is : export FONTCONFIG_CFLAGS="-I/home/achouri/pfe/sortie/libpango/fontconfig/font/include" export FONTCONFIG_LIBS="-L/home/achouri/pfe/sortie/libpango/fontconfig/font/lib" export FREETYPE_CFLAGS="-I/home/achouri/pfe/sortie/libpango/fre

Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-07 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 09:02:43AM +0100, luke.leighton wrote: > ok. so. we come back to the question again: what shall i propose to > them that they consider doing, and what benefit would it be to them to > do so? > > i cannot go to them and say "you have to do this [insert proposal > here]"

Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-07 Thread Vladimir Pantelic
luke.leighton wrote:> so. > > coming back to what you said earlier: i'm formulating what to say to > allwinner [and need to pre-send something by monday so that they can > consider it before the meeting]. so far, it consists of: > > * device-tree is what the linux kernel community has come up

Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-07 Thread Alexandre Belloni
On 07/06/2013 10:06, luke.leighton wrote: > On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Vladimir Pantelic wrote: >> luke.leighton wrote: >>> 3 days remaining on the clock. >> >> what catastrophic thing will happen when the time runs out? > no catastrophe, vladimir: all that happens is that an opportunity i

Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-07 Thread luke.leighton
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Vladimir Pantelic wrote: > luke.leighton wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Vladimir Pantelic >> wrote: >> >>> 4 days? WTF? since when did setting an ultimatum to the kernel >>> community work? >> >> >> i was only informed of the opportunity 2 days ago,

Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-07 Thread luke.leighton
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > If companies are going to go off and invent the square wheel, and that > makes *them* suffer the loss of being able to merge back into the > mainline kernel, thereby making *their* job of moving forward with > their kernel versions

Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-07 Thread luke.leighton
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Tomasz Figa wrote: > On Thursday 06 of June 2013 13:49:38 luke.leighton wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Tomasz Figa > wrote: >> > Luke, >> > >> > On Thursday 06 of June 2013 13:24:57 luke.leighton wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 1:01 AM, Tomasz Figa

Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-07 Thread Vladimir Pantelic
luke.leighton wrote: On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Vladimir Pantelic wrote: 4 days? WTF? since when did setting an ultimatum to the kernel community work? i was only informed of the opportunity 2 days ago, vladimir. this is an important meeting. of course the linux kernel community is

Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-07 Thread luke.leighton
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Vladimir Pantelic wrote: > 4 days? WTF? since when did setting an ultimatum to the kernel > community work? i was only informed of the opportunity 2 days ago, vladimir. this is an important meeting. of course the linux kernel community is entirely free to: * c