Dear Stefan Kristiansson, > On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 05:28:18PM -0700, Tom Rini 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. > > > > 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. > > > > 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. > > This made me realise that there are two old OpenRISC patches floating > around that hasn't been applied to mainline. > > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/142511/ > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/142510/ > > Apart from that I'm not experiencing any problems on this arch.
Tom, I think we should apply them please. > It brings me to another question though, > would it be possible to get a custodian tree for OpenRISC? CCing Detlev. > Stefan Best regards, Marek Vasut _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
