[fedora-arm] Cavium Thunder patches for 4.1 and 4.2 publicly available

[Robert Richter]

On 30.07.15 00:45:14, Peter Robinson wrote:
> Hi Robert,
> 
> > I have updated my tree with all patches for Cavium's ThunderX:
> 
> OK, I really don't care about 4.1 :-)
> 
> >  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rric/linux.git thunder/master-v4.1
> >  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rric/linux.git thunder/master-v4.2
> >  https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/rric/linux.git/?h=thunder/master-v4.1
> >  https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/rric/linux.git/?h=thunder/master-v4.2
> >
> > It is booting with devicetree and ACPI. This patches supports CPU
> > revisions beginning 1.1.
> >
> > Please consider that patch stack for inclusion into Fedora for ARM.
> >
> > Let me know in case of questions or if you need help esp. with porting
> > it to Fedora.
> >
> > Any suggestions how to move forward is appreciated.
> 
> An overview/summary here of each of the subsytem patch series or links
> to upstream reviews for the subsystems.
> 
> As mentioned previously I'm really only prepared to to consider small
> self contained patches as enablers of particular subsystems as having
> got rid of the vast majority of aarch64 patches have no urge to go
> back to that hell, I also won't pull in patch sets that might impact
> other architectures such as ACPI-6, although I've no idea if that's in
> the above as I've not got time to look at it this week.

If we completely drop ACPI support and stick with 4.2, the number of
patches will be much smaller with nice subsystem patch sets submitted
to mailing lists. I will send you pointers to them.

Many thanks,

-Robert