[U-Boot-Users] status and plans for next merge window?

[Kumar Gala]

On Oct 8, 2007, at 4:11 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:

> Dear Kumar,
>
> in message <58DC67B3-2CEB-4E86-9EEE- 
> F96E7486D13F at kernel.crashing.org> you wrote:
>>
>> I was wondering what the status of the next merge window was?
>
> The status is - and was - that we try to stay out of the way  of  the
> Linux  kernel  merge  window.  So we're waiting for Linux 2.6.23, and
> then at least 3 weeks...

Is that for the merge window or for 1.3.0?  I'm assuming you'll call  
1.3.0 final when you feel its tested enough.

>> I know there are some big changes coming and wanted to get a sense of
>> when we might see a tree with these changes in them:
>> * Grant's work on kconfig
>> * moving of drivers around
>
> I didn't find any time last week and the weekend, but I shouldbe able
> to have most of the pending stuff merged in until next weekend.  That
> should result in 1.3.0-rc3 (which will be followed by 1.3.0 ?).
>
> I will push 1.3.0-rc3 to -testing as base for Grant.
>
> Moving drivers may happen after this.
>
>> Any ways I was hoping to get a sense when the big modifications would
>> be in a tree so patches for the things I've listed would be in a form
>> that they'd likely to be accepted.
>
> Well, I guess you'll have to ask Linus, then :-)

Ahh, Linus.. when will you release 2.6.23 :)

- k