[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH v2] [new uImage] ppc: Re-order ramdisk/fdt handling sequence

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Feb 26 06:48:43 CET 2008


On Feb 22, 2008, at 8:36 AM, Bartlomiej Sieka wrote:

> Jerry Van Baren wrote:
>> Wolfgang Denk wrote:
>>> In message <8B11A571-3BC2-42BD-9B66- 
>>> DF22A736A3A7 at kernel.crashing.org> you wrote:
>>>> And the whole point of my patch was to enable the ability to   
>>>> dynamically grow the blob before we do anything w/the ramdisk.
>>> So what is the state of this patch now? Will it go in through the  
>>> FDT
>>> custodian repo, or has it been rejected, or am I supposed to apply  
>>> it
>>> directly? Or?
> [...]
>> Most of the email exchanges were with me and the patch is fine IMHO.
>> I was expecting it to go through the "new-image" custodian, but I  
>> would be happy to apply it to the u-boot-fdt repo and push it up  
>> from there.
>
> Jerry, Kumar,
>
> I think it would be better to have this patch (and other ones by Kumar
> that touch booting-related code) go through the new-image branch.
> Otherwise we'll have merge conflicts down the road, especially since
> we've got a big patch coming, that adds framework for new image
> handling. I'd like to have this framework patch merged first, then  
> take
> care of (re-based) boot-related patches that have been posted  
> recently.

Agreed.  Was off having some fun for a few days.

I think going through the new image tree is best.

- k




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