[PATCH 00/13] staging: add drivers to support Mediatek mt7621 in gnubee-pc1

NeilBrown neil at brown.name
Wed Mar 14 23:45:02 UTC 2018


On Thu, Mar 15 2018, NeilBrown wrote:

> Hi Greg,
>  I'd like to submit the following drivers to staging.  They
>  are all for components of the mt7621 MIPS-based SOC from Mediatek.
>  I lifted them out of libreCMC and (for the ethernet code) out
>  of email posts from about 2 years ago.  I forward-ported
>  them to mainline, fixed enough bugs that they mostly work,
>  and moved them to staging.
>
>  With these patches the GNUBEE is almost usable.  It needs
>  one patch to arch/mips/kernel/setup.c because mips_cm_probe()
>  is being called too early.  To successfully reboot (i.e warm-restart)
>  it needs a small patch to drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c.
>
>  I've made a point of only included code that I can actually test
>  on hardware that I have.  That has meant selecting only a few patches
>  from a series and in a couple of cases, discarding some files from a
>  patch.  I haven't discard code from within a file that I need part
>  of.
>
>  All the driver patches had a From: of John Crispin so he is cc:ed -
>  thanks John!!

Unfortunately the email address I had for John bounces.  So if anyone
replies for any reason, you might like to delete his address from the
Cc.

Thanks,
NeilBrown
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