[U-Boot] U-Boot ARM merge strategy, was: there are non-DM6446 DaVinci chips

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear David Brownell,

In message <200904250105.41050.david-b at pacbell.net> you wrote:
>
> Yes.  The issue is needing to guess what's up ... so for
> example, I seem to observe that "merge window closed" must
> not be the same as "first RC is out", which isn't how the
> Linux process works.  But that's the only example I've
> seen for how the new u-boot cycles should work...

Maybe I pout a little more meaning in the words  "release  candiate".
After  the  end  of  a  merge  window,  there is usually still a long
backlog of patches that has not been merged, and after that there are
several rounds of debugging / bug fixing needed. IMO it makes  little
sense to call anything in this state a "release candiate".

That's why we still have no "rc" in the current release cycle.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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