Hi Tom, On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 17:28:18 -0700, Tom Rini <tr...@ti.com> wrote:
> Hey all, > > (I had attempted to bcc this to all listed maintainer, but that upset > Google greatly. I'll send this out manually instead later). > > I'd like to put this out here for custodians and maintainers to > consider, especially in light of the device model work that's not just > coming but has already started being posted. > > One of the keys to the success of U-Boot has been the number of > platforms that are supported. But part of supporting platforms is > needing people to volunteer to maintain them long term and help with > testing changes and so forth. So first of all, I've just tagged > v2012.10-rc1. Please give this at least a basic test on whatever > platforms you're able to. Just started some minimal testing on edmini (Marvell orion5x). Will be able to test on wireless_space (Marvell kirkwood). Might be able to test on TrimSlice (NVidia Tegra2). Sorry, no TI board handy. :) > Second, with this, my next branch is now open and I'd like to start it > by asking that platforms that people wish to abandon be removed. With > the device model, lots of code will need adjusting and while it's > mechanical in ways, it still needs to be run-time tested. And it's > changes that someone must do. I know others have suggested adding or > better publicizing our to-remove file. But one of the advantages of > git is that it's easy to bring platforms back, should someone later > wish to bring it back. But this also requires the removal to be done > cleanly. > > All of that said, I would like to stress that if you maintain a > platform and you wish to help with the testing and perhaps even the > conversion effort, no matter the age of the platform it would be > welcome and appreciated. As far as edmini and wireless_space are concerned, I am willing to give it a try. Where should I start? > And finally, if everyone really wants to go another direction with old > platforms, I'm open to discussion of course. I just want to miminize > work done on platforms that aren't active and we don't know if they > will come back. Amicalement, -- Albert. _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
