On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 11:57 PM, Philippe Robin <philippe.ro...@arm.com> wrote: > Eric, > >>> So maybe it's just a right time to talk about using linaro ARM kernel >>> tree as a fork for quick merge of the ever expanding SoC and board >>> support, and using it more as a productive kernel for downstream. > > I don't think that a 'fork' is really a solution we are looking for. Using > Linaro as a staging and consolidation tree and at the same time improving > the upstream kernel is more what I would be looking for and what Linaro is > currently working on.
Yeah, staging is more close to what I meant, a 'fork' is not appropriate here, as getting the support into mainline will always be our goal. Yet there seems to be necessary to have such a temporary place for those patches to live before the mainline is in a good enough shape. And it should not be an arm-next tree, which is just for detecting merge conflict. I expect it to be more usable, end users can just download and build a basically usable kernel. > > Regards, > Philippe > > -----Original Message----- > From: linaro-dev-boun...@lists.linaro.org > [mailto:linaro-dev-boun...@lists.linaro.org] On Behalf Of Eric Miao > Sent: 01 April 2011 16:44 > To: Linaro Dev > Subject: Linus being annoyed by the ARM kernel code > > Just FYI - lengthy but very interesting read, Linus was really good at > wording, enjoy heh :-) > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/3/17/283 > > So maybe it's just a right time to talk about using linaro ARM kernel > tree as a fork for quick merge of the ever expanding SoC and board > support, and using it more as a productive kernel for downstream. > And in the mean time, improve the mainline kernel into such a good > shape that with less crappy code we could support more platforms? > > Just a bit thought on that possibility. > > - eric > > _______________________________________________ > linaro-dev mailing list > linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org > http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > linaro-dev mailing list > linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org > http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev > _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
