Dear Wolfgang, 2009/9/7 Wolfgang Denk <w...@denx.de>
> Hello everybody, > > I wrote on > > | 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. > > Thanks for all the discussion so far. I really appreciate your help. > > > > As we are in the middle of a merge window, I don't want to waste much > time. Therefore changes become effective immediately. > > This is the result we have so far: > > > master ARM repository: Tom Rix > > Tom has accepted his new responsibility. Thanks a lot for > that. Tom succeeds Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard who did > this work so far. > > Big thanks goes to Jean-Christophe for all his work so far. I > hope this change helps to reduce your work load enough so you > can focus n the many tasks you are running in parallel. Many > of us are looking forward to seeing your results. > > Atmel (AT91): Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard > > no changes here. > > Freescale (i.MX) > > So far we didn't find a volunteer yet. > > Until we find one, we will not split out a separate repository > either. > > Marvell (PXA + IXP): Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard > > no changes here. > > Marvell (all other): Prafulla Wadaskar > > Prafulla has accepted his new responsibility. Thanks a lot > for that. > > Samsung (s3c, s5pc): Minkyu Kang > > We don't have Minkyu Kang's word yet, but Kyungmin Park > recommended him, and I'm optimistic to receiving his OK. > sorry to late response. I need all of your help :) Thank you for give me the opportunity. > Texas Instruments (OMAP,DaVinci): Sandeep Paulraj > > Sandeep has accepted responsibility for TI's DaVinci SOCs; at > the moment it is not clear yet how we will handle OMAP - > Sandeep suggested to split OMAP and DaVinci into separate > repositories, but I would like to avoid this, at least until > all the other changes have sunk in and stabilized. I hope that > others (Dirk, Tom) can help out a bit here and support Sandeep > where needed. > > > I will thus create the following new git repositories: > > u-boot-marvell > u-boot-samsung > u-boot-ti > > Tom, Prafulla, Minkyu and Sandeep: can you please send me your SSH > public keys so I can enable your access to these repositories? > > > Minkyu - Kyungmin mentioned that you have problems to push files to > an external git repository through SSH. Is there any other method we > can set up to make access for you easier? Anything that can be done > onour side (like providing a special configuration, say with > non-standsard port numbers or so) is easy for us. Alternatively, if > you could set up a local repository on your side and enable me to > access it through ssh or rsync, I can easily use this and mirror it > to the publicly accessable server. In short - if there is anything we > can do to make work easier for you, please don't hesitate to tell me. > > Best regards, > > Wolfgang Denk > > -- > DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel > HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany > Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de > WARNING: This Product Attracts Every Other Piece of Matter in the > Universe, Including the Products of Other Manufacturers, with a Force > Proportional to the Product of the Masses and Inversely Proportional > to the Distance Between Them. > _______________________________________________ > U-Boot mailing list > U-Boot@lists.denx.de > http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot > Thanks. Minkyu Kang. -- from. prom. www.promsoft.net
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