**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Thu Feb 16 03:00:02 2017 Feb 16 03:02:04 suppose if i am interested in some project in your gsoc list how can i start working on it or how i can get more information about the project Feb 16 03:41:54 * nerdboy added plenty references Feb 16 20:21:48 Jkidner m_w mailing blue sounds like you have it well in hand. Feb 16 20:22:14 pmezydlo: https://lwn.net/Articles/700433/ Feb 16 20:22:28 Being my usual intermittent self even more than normal at mo. Feb 16 20:22:41 mailing blue? Feb 16 20:22:57 Gah autocorrect. Feb 16 20:23:05 Mainlining Feb 16 20:23:09 new postal service :D Feb 16 20:23:24 Or writing drivers anyway .. Feb 16 20:23:52 well I can handle the most of it probably Feb 16 20:24:01 m_w: yes, I seen. it is good that it did Feb 16 20:24:23 of course there will be some back and forth on the list Feb 16 20:24:39 the drivers that worry me are anything PRU related Feb 16 20:24:49 Encoder stuff rather new in IIO as you probably noticed. Interfaces are a bit vague so a second driver would be really handy Feb 16 20:25:20 Yeah have ti made any real progress on rproc mailing? Feb 16 20:26:07 I haven't been keeping track since last gsoc? Feb 16 20:26:29 not sure about that, it seems a battle every time you move to a new kernel Feb 16 20:26:36 Oops that wasn't meant to be a question. Feb 16 20:27:16 Pity. Would such a nice thing to work with if not for that. Feb 16 20:27:30 well gsoc is helping but the but interface needs to be locked down Feb 16 20:27:48 Exactly. Feb 16 20:28:10 I believe that varying approaches are part of the stagnation Feb 16 20:28:47 and discord on the best underlying mechanism Feb 16 20:30:30 Hmm. They have mainlined the omap4 stuff. Rather different, but still progress. Feb 16 20:30:43 pmezydlo: you should attempt porting the omap to the interface that Geert is proposing, it will give the patch more traction Feb 16 20:30:56 I wonder if omap3 is heading for abandonware Feb 16 20:31:08 jic23: what specifically was pushed? Feb 16 20:37:09 Not sure, just looked at what was there in mainline. Feb 16 20:37:34 The stuff for the little arm cores on newer omaps is in now. Feb 16 20:39:01 In TIs remoteproc tree the pru stuff just hit their 4.9 branch but looks like copy of stuff from last year. Feb 16 20:39:52 Maybe they could confirm they have no more plans to change it and let community upstream it if possible... Feb 16 20:41:26 Ping me if anything interesting comes up. Will catch up from logs if not. Feb 16 20:43:01 Pesky interview in morning. Looking forward to that encoder driver I think you volunteered to write :) Feb 16 20:43:11 Bye for now. Feb 16 20:49:10 m_w: I will try to do this, I want to see his code but I can't dig out it. Feb 16 20:49:22 m_w: I am interested in changes the lower layer Feb 16 20:52:07 OK I have Feb 16 20:52:21 sorry was on a short walk Feb 16 20:52:30 did you find the patch series? Feb 16 20:54:36 yes I found it Feb 16 21:09:51 m_w: Can I somehow take kernel code after his patches Feb 16 21:10:26 not really Feb 16 21:10:49 you would have to apply the patches Feb 16 21:11:34 the easiest way would be to determine the version of the kernel around the time that he submitted the patch and checkout that version and then apply the patch Feb 16 21:12:13 since it is mostly new features though I bet it would patch with the latest kernel with only a few failed chunks Feb 16 21:15:06 right. It's better to wait a few weeks Feb 16 22:06:44 patches for what exactly? did they go into the mailing list or patchwork? Feb 16 22:07:20 easy enough to build a deb kernel package with custom whatever Feb 16 22:08:03 if we need something for a project idea to work, better to know it/build it now rather than wait... Feb 16 22:08:24 * nerdboy anticipating blockers Feb 16 22:08:44 this is a RFC patch for a new SPI slave interface Feb 16 22:09:29 mailinglist Feb 16 22:09:33 https://lwn.net/Articles/700433/ Feb 16 22:10:25 oh look at that, there is a link to a topic branch Feb 16 22:10:36 https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/geert/renesas-drivers.git Feb 16 22:10:52 topic/spi-slave-v2 Feb 16 22:11:20 that is super easy to get to Feb 16 22:11:58 https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/geert/renesas-drivers.git/log/?h=topic/spi-slave-v2 Feb 16 22:12:41 I already have it Feb 16 22:12:44 :) Feb 16 22:14:35 looks like they integrate the master and slave support into the same driver Feb 16 22:15:04 for the controller at least Feb 16 22:17:10 it looks very neatly at the lowest layer Feb 17 00:20:59 that's at least one good thing for the day... **** ENDING LOGGING AT Fri Feb 17 03:00:00 2017