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doc/DUART28-boot-control: update for current patch situation
author Mychaela Falconia <falcon@freecalypso.org>
date Tue, 02 Feb 2021 05:16:01 +0000
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60 open, thereby giving userspace applications full control of these UART outputs 60 open, thereby giving userspace applications full control of these UART outputs
61 via TIOCMBIS and TIOCMBIC ioctls. 61 via TIOCMBIS and TIOCMBIC ioctls.
62 62
63 The first version of our DUART28C support patch was submitted to ftdi_sio 63 The first version of our DUART28C support patch was submitted to ftdi_sio
64 maintainer Johan Hovold in 2020-09. Minor refinements were made in late 2020-09 64 maintainer Johan Hovold in 2020-09. Minor refinements were made in late 2020-09
65 into early 2020-10, then nothing happened until the end of 2020-11. As our 65 into early 2020-10, but then after dragging for several more months, the
66 fc-host-tools-r14 release is being prepared in early 2020-12, the latest from 66 maintainers essentially rejected the patch on ideological grounds, rather than
67 Johan is that he is not interested in merging our DUART28C support patch by 67 any code quality issues:
68 itself, but he does have a generalized solution which would be equally
69 acceptable to FreeCalypso because it still does what we need. The latest status
70 from Johan as of fc-host-tools-r14 release time is this proposed patch series:
71 68
72 https://lore.kernel.org/linux-serial/X8iuCXYhOBVMGvXv@localhost/T/ 69 https://lore.kernel.org/linux-serial/X8iuCXYhOBVMGvXv@localhost/T/
73 70
74 However, the comments in that thread indicate that the maintainers seem intent 71 For the next several decades until these maintainers retire of old age and get
75 on delaying this integration until 5.12 merge window if not even later, thus we 72 replaced by someone more reasonable and cooperative, our only available solution
76 are still months away from any hope of resolution. 73 is to apply the necessary patch locally on our own systems.
77 74
78 For those FreeCalypso DUART28 users who are like the Mother, desiring to use 75 For those FreeCalypso DUART28 users who are like the Mother, desiring to use
79 the boot control feature now without waiting indefinitely for Linux kernel 76 the boot control feature now without waiting indefinitely for Linux kernel
80 maintainers to get their act together, the linux-patch directory in our 77 maintainers to get their act together, the linux-patch directory in our
81 freecalypso-hwlab Hg repository contains several versions of our DUART28C 78 freecalypso-hwlab Hg repository contains several versions of our DUART28C