RFC future of gemini platform
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Cover letter [RFC 0/3] future of gemini platform
Hi Arnd,
Le 01/04/13 15:41, Arnd Bergmann a ?crit :
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The gemini platform is quite broken at the moment due to bitrot, here are the two suggested solutions. We should either apply the first patch or the other two, depending on whether anyone still uses this.
Ulli was last actively working on this about two years ago, so I assume that he has moved on, but if he or anyone else is still interested in keeping Gemini alive, any patches and testing are very welcome. Without a maintainer however, I see no point in keeping it.
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The fa526 CPU support is currently only used on Gemini, but Florian had some patches last year for it, so he might still need it. If there are still plans to get MCS814x or another fa526 based platform merged into mainline, we can keep this around, but unless I see a timeline for this, I would prefer to remove it for now. It should be trivial to revert that patch and bring it back if it's needed for a new platform.
I did not have actually hardware to port MCS814x to anything else than MCS8140 (real ARM 926EJS core), while MCS8142 and MCS8144 actually use a FA626 (not 526) core. Added in CC are Imre and Gabor who actually worked on the Gemini machine and might be able to either give their go for removal, or fix the issues.
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Florian