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Collabora contributions to Linux Kernel 4.5

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Gustavo Padovan
March 17, 2016

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Linux Kernel 4.5 was released earlier this week, and once again Collabora engineers played a role in its development. In addition to their current projects, seven Collabora engineers contributed a total of 33 patches to the new Kernel.

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Here are some highlights of Collabora’s participation in Kernel 4.5:

Daniel Stone improved i915 runtime WARN() messages and fixed an important issue in the component subsystem when component_add() fails. Danilo Cesar made the DRM Docbook ready for Markdown text.

Gustavo Padovan improved the pm_runtime management on the drm/exynos driver and started work on de-staging the Android Sync Framework. On Rockchip, Sjoerd Simons enabled IR receiver to RK3288 Radxa Rock 2 Square, added multi_v7_defconfig for Rockchip audio and enabled RK3288 SPDIF clocks to change their parent. On the net side, Sjoerd added a patch to turn carrier off on phy attach to avoid unknown states and another patch to add ethernet0 alias for the RK3288 to help u-boot find this device-node.

During his brief time with us at Collabora, Heiko Stübner added the dts file for the veyron-brain board, a shutdown callback to platform variant dwc2 devices for a special clock handling to avoid getting stuck on the reboot/poweroff process and multi_v7_defconfig support to Rockchip’s io-domain driver, crypto module and rk808 clkout module. He also enabled support for veyron minnie touchscreen, adjusted temperature limits on veyron-speedy and fixed the edp-24m clock to be associated to the internal 24MHz oscillator all the time.

Martyn Welch added a driver for the Zodiac Aerospace RAVE Watchdog Processor, while Tomeu Vizoso added a device_is_bound() helper function and setter for dev.pm_domain that comes with extra checkings. Tomeu also added a patch to allow USB devices to remain runtime-suspended when sleeping and another patch to optimize sleep by going direct_complete if driver has no prepare and PM callbacks. Lastly, Tomeu also fixed a freq issue on Tegra devfreq_dev_profile.target callback.

Following is a list of all patches submitted by Collabora for this kernel release:

Daniel Stone (3):

Danilo Cesar Lemes de Paula (1):

Gustavo Padovan (9):

Heiko Stübner (8):

Martyn Welch (2):

Sjoerd Simons (5):

Tomeu Vizoso (5):

 

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