[Arm-dev] Add Marvell Armada7k8k NIC (mvpp2) support patches

[Marcin Wojtas]

Hi Jim,

Would it be possible, that you take a look at my questions form the
previous email?

Thanks in advance,
Marcin

śr., 1 sie 2018 o 17:11 Marcin Wojtas <mw at semihalf.com> napisał(a):
>
> Hi Jim,
>
> wt., 31 lip 2018 o 18:09 Jim Perrin <jperrin at centos.org> napisał(a):
> >
> >
> >
> > On 07/30/2018 07:00 AM, Marcin Wojtas wrote:
> > > Hi Jim,
> > >
> > > It's been a while, since I sent the patch. Any objections about merging?
> > >
> > > Is v4.11 kernel still a valid baseline or for the next releases or we
> > > should use v4.14? When is that transition and next release supposed to
> > > happen?
> > >
> >
> > The current version of the supported kernel is 4.14, so this would need
> > to be updated to support the 4.14 tree.
> >
>
> There is still a gap between vanilla v4.14 version of the driver and
> the upstream commits that allow to use it with ACPI (although much
> smaller than for v4.11). What is a procedure of providing you the
> patches?
>
> >
> >
> > > Best regards,
> > > Marcinsob., 23 cze 2018 o 08:18 Marcin Wojtas <mw at semihalf.com> napisał(a):
> > >>
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> I'm sending a patch that is applicable on top of the kernel
> > >> sig-altarch7-aarch64 branch. It enables ACPI support for the Marvell
> > >> Armada7k8k NIC - this required backporting very big amount of patches
> > >> (all merged upstream), hence I decided to attach the single commit,
> > >> instead of issueing 'git send-email' of it.
> > >>
> >
> >
> > Once we got to 4.14, there didn't seem to be a demand for the
> > sig-altarch kernel to continue so I left it at the previous version.
> > From the sounds of things, you still need it for this to work?
>
> Is v4.14-based Centos an official version to support aarch64? If yes,
> I'd complement this version with the needed patches.
>
> Btw. if I google 'Centos aarch64' the links point to the altarch/7
> images. What is their kernel base then? In other words, where should
> one search
> for most recent image of aarch64 images? Is there any public release
> schedule available?
>
> About sig-altarch tree, I'd need to make sure internally. From your
> perspective, would it be recommended?
>
> >
> > >> Despite many attempts I wasn't able to build entire rpm package with
> > >> the mock build utility, however I managed to test the clean kernel
> > >> v4.11 with applied all patches and built with updated .config. Please
> > >> let know if this patch is sufficient and can be merged.
> >
> > I'm guessing no unless it patches/builds against 4.14 as well. I'll see
> > about updating the sig-altarch tree so that we can test there.
> >
>
> For sure I need to send updated patch list for v4.14. Please see my
> question above.
>
> Thanks,
> Marcin