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Hello everybody,

@mripard @tpetazzoni

I'm starting to port the patchset for cedrus to mainline.
I have forked mainline linux to https://github.com/micronovasrl/linux-cedrus
Now, how can I proceed?
All patches are obviously full of hunks,
so I can't simply do "git am *.patch".
How can I proceed with commits?
Do I fix patch per patch and reuse "old" commit log?
But I don't think it's right, because there is also porting part to add to commit.
So I don't know how to proceed,
also against this repo with mine.

You can check first commit with previous commit log:
https://github.com/micronovasrl/linux-cedrus/commit/6b20076505630f39799af03d59974e5d9e10b625

Can you provide me some hint to proceed?

Thank you

Can You please point which patches should be applied to this kernel to be able to run Mripard's MALI GPU?

I am trying to run this kernel on my OrangePi PC Allwinner H3 board. But I need not only Cedrus but also MALI GPU. (I guess everybody wants this).

If I install on my OrangePi PC armbian debian server (based on github.com/megous/linux, branch orange-pi-5.0) then I can build https://github.com/mripard/sunxi-mali and install it. Then I do copy to board bootlin/mali-blobs.git, install x-window-system, xserver-xorg-video-armsoc-sun4i packages and set kernel command line option to drm_kms_helper.drm_fbdev_overalloc=300

Then Mali GPU works perfectly on armbian OrangePi PC.

Unfortunately these steps do not work with this kernel bootlin/linux-cedrus.
Obviously I miss some kernel patches.
Armbian makes lot of them but

1. I am not sure which is important to MALI
2. some armbian patches touch sun4i drm which is significantly different in bootlin/linux-cedrus, so I cannot merge myself, lack of my knowledge
3. patching with armbian prepared patches to this bootlin/linux-cedrus kernel fails.
   Patches are not compatible.

Can You please give any idea how to resolve this issue?
I need not only Cedrus but also Mali GPU working..