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

Mon Jul 30 14:00:59 UTC 2018
Marcin Wojtas <mw at semihalf.com>

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?

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.
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks,
> Marcin