> -----Original Message----- > From: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD [mailto:plagn...@jcrosoft.com] > Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2009 4:48 AM > To: Wolfgang Denk > Cc: u-boot@lists.denx.de; Tom Rix; Magnus Lilja; Prafulla > Wadaskar; Dirk Behme; Minkyu Kang; Kyungmin Park; Harald Welte > Subject: Re: RFC: split ARM repo and distribute workload > > On 23:57 Fri 04 Sep , Wolfgang Denk wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > > > ARM has always been one of the architectures that generated a big > > number of different processors and SoCs, but recently the > activitiy in > > this area is literally exploding. This is partially due to the fact > > that ARM is currently used in many designs, so many new ARM based > > processors and SoCs and even more new ARM boards show up, > but another > > and at least as important change is that some silicon and board > > vendors have started to actively pushing their products into the > > U-Boot (and Linux) mainline source trees (and *welcome* they all > > are!). > > > > It has become evident that this growing complexity has > become way too > > massive to be shouldered by a single custodian, even a very > active one > > like Jean-Christophe. > > > > I think we have no other choice but to add more manpower to > this task, > > i. e. split the ARM respository and distribute the workload across a > > few more custodians. > > > > Unline with the Power architecture, where the split can be easily > > defined by processor lines, with ARM it seems more logical to me to > > differentiate by silicon vendors. > > > > After much thinking I therefor suggest to implement the following > > change for the ARM architecture: > > > > > > I think this will be better > > master ARM repository : Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard > > Freescale (i.MX) Magnus Lilja? > Or are there any volunteers at > Freescale? > > Marvell Prafulla Wadaskar This makes more sense for u-boot-mrvl.git (proposed) to go entire Marvell specific patches through it Regards.. Prafulla . .
> > Samsung (s3c, s5pc): Are there any volunteers at Samsung? > > Texas Instruments (OMAP): Tom Rix > > Best Regards, > J. > _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
