APPLIED: [PULL] x-gene drivers for utopic

[Dann Frazier]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com> wrote:
> On 06/11/2014 03:03 PM, Dann Frazier wrote:
>> hey,
>>  This would pull in the rtc driver and a serial h/w flow control patch
>> that are clean cherry picks from upstream that have already gone into
>> trusty. It also adds still-in-review versions of the reboot and
>> ethernet drivers:
>>
>> git://kernel.ubuntu.com/dannf/ubuntu-utopic-hyperscale.git for-ubuntu-20140611
>>
>> We'd like to get the in-review drivers merged now (vs. waiting until
>> the sooner of upstream acceptance or kernel freeze) to make it easier
>> for us and friends @ Linaro to test other aspects of the utopic kernel
>> tree on arm64. We'll continue to track the upstream progress and
>> submit revert-old/add-new patches to swap out for newer versions as
>> they improve based on upstream feedback until they're accepted, or
>> we're too close to release for your comfort.
>>
>> Note: there's also an upstream regression affecting the sata
>> controller that Ming is working, which we'll need to address before
>> we're back to trusty-level-functionality:
>>   http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/1939038
>>
>
> I made some minor changes such as 'git cherry-pick -x' for those patches
> that are upstream, and changed the rest to be prefixed with 'UBUNTU:
> SAUCE:' so I can keep track of what we're carrying as cruft.

Thanks.

> I don't see any of these SAUCE patches in linux-next. Is APM still
> working to get them upstreamed ?

They are actively doing so, yes. The reboot driver has been submitted
multiple times but seems to falling on deaf ears now. David Miller
warned them that the NIC driver will take multiple review cycles -
presumably due to complexity - and that is proving true.

  -dann

> rtg
> --
> Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com