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[RFC/PATCH 0/4] request_firmware() on memory constrained devices

March 8, 2016, 1:22 am

Some systems are memory constrained but they need to load very large firmwares. The firmware subsystem allows drivers to request this firmware be load

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[PATCH 1/4] ARM64: dma: Add support for NO_KERNEL_MAPPING attribute

March 8, 2016, 1:22 am

Both the IOMMU and non-IOMMU allocations don't respect the NO_KERNEL_MAPPING attribute, therefore drivers can't save virtual address space and time sp

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[RFC/PATCH 2/4] dma-mapping: Add dma_remap() APIs

March 8, 2016, 1:22 am

From: Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org> Some systems are memory constrained but they need to load very large firmwares. The firmware subsystem all

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[RFC/PATCH 3/4] firmware_class: Provide infrastructure to make fw caching...

March 8, 2016, 1:22 am

From: Vikram Mulukutla <markivx@codeaurora.org> Some low memory systems with complex peripherals cannot afford to have the relatively large firmware

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[RFC/PATCH 4/4] firmware: Support requesting firmware directly into DMA memory

March 8, 2016, 1:22 am

Some systems are memory constrained but they need to load very large firmwares. The firmware subsystem allows drivers to request this firmware be load

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[PATCH] net: dsa: Fix cleanup resources upon module removal

March 8, 2016, 1:36 am

The initial commit badly merged into the dsa_resume method instead of the dsa_remove_dst method. As consequence, the dst->master_netdev->dsa_ptr is no

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[PATCH v4] drivers: pinctrl: add driver for Allwinner A64 SoC

March 8, 2016, 1:37 am

Based on the Allwinner A64 user manual and on the previous sunxi pinctrl drivers this introduces the pin multiplex assignments for the ARMv8 Allwinner

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[PATCH] spi: core: Fix deadlock when sending messages

March 8, 2016, 1:49 am

The function __spi_pump_messages() is called by spi_pump_messages() and __spi_sync(). The function __spi_sync() has an argument 'bus_locked' that indi

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[tip:perf/core] perf tools: Explicitly declare inc_group_count as a void...

March 8, 2016, 2:29 am

Commit-ID: 07ef7574458369cb0345facc748e964af68a75f4 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/07ef7574458369cb0345facc748e964af68a75f4 Author: Colin

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[PATCH V5 0/4] net-next: mediatek: add ethernet driver

March 8, 2016, 2:29 am

This series adds support for the Mediatek ethernet core found on current ARM based SoCs. The driver works on MT2701 and MT7623 SoCs Instead of trying

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[PATCH V5 1/4] net-next: mediatek: document MediaTek SoC ethernet binding

March 8, 2016, 2:29 am

This adds the binding documentation for the MediaTek Ethernet controller. Signed-off-by: John Crispin <blogic@openwrt.org> Acked-by: Rob Herring <rob

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[PATCH V5 2/4] net-next: mediatek: add support for MT7623 ethernet

March 8, 2016, 2:29 am

Add ethernet support for MediaTek SoCs from the MT7623 family. These have dual GMAC. Depending on the exact version, there might be a built-in Gigabit

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