Hi Hans, > I would to give a talk (more an intro to a group wide discussion) on > how to get (more) manufacturers engaged in upstreaming their work / > working directly with upstream from day one.
This is very welcome indeed, thanks! > My own experience in this lies with the Allwinner sunxi support, > where Allwinner themselves are shipping a quite old u-boot, which > is not even fully functional as it gets chainloaded by a custom > loader which sets up RAM first. Thanks to the work of various > people in the community we've a fully functional u-boot (replacing > the custom loader) for sun4i, sun5i and sun7i. But we are still > e.g. waiting for someone to get sun6i support in place. > > This is not good, so I would like to give a talk with some > proposals to (try to) get more manufacturers working with upstream, > and then have a discussion on this. Sounds very good to me. > Biography: > Hans has been a Linux developer since 1996, working on a wide variety > of projects, lots of Fedora packaging work, writing various hwmon > kernel drivers, > (re)writing many webcam drivers, writing libv4l, various usb kernel > work, libusb > maintainership, Allwinner sunxi kernel and u-boot work. > > Since 2008 Hans works for Red Hat, besides continuing all the FOSS > work he did before, > at Red Hat he has worked on anaconda the Fedora / Red Hat installer, > parted (the partition tool), > Spice and usb-redirection under qemu, and currently he works on the > input stack for > wayland and new touchpad support for the kernel. I reserved a 30 minutes time slot for you on our wiki[1]. Best wishes Detlev [1] http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/MiniSummitELCE2014 -- I've been examining the existing [linux] kernel configuration system, and I have about concluded that the best favor we could do everybody involved with it is to take it out behind the barn and shoot it through the head. -- Eric S. Raymond on linux-kbuild Mar 2000 -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-40 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: d...@denx.de _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
