[U-Boot] RFC: split ARM repo and distribute workload

[Kyungmin Park]

On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 6:57 AM, Wolfgang Denk<wd at denx.de> wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> ARM has always been one of the architectures that generated a big
> number of different processors and SoCs, but recently the activitiy in
> this area is literally exploding.  This is partially due to the fact
> that ARM is currently used in many designs, so many new ARM based
> processors and SoCs and even more new ARM boards show up, but another
> and at least as important change is that some silicon and board
> vendors have started to actively pushing their products into the
> U-Boot (and Linux) mainline source trees (and *welcome* they all
> are!).
>
> It has become evident that this growing complexity has become way too
> massive to be shouldered by a single custodian, even a very active one
> like Jean-Christophe.
>
> I think we have no other choice but to add more manpower to this task,
> i. e. split the ARM respository and distribute the workload across a
> few more custodians.
>
> Unline with the Power architecture, where the split can be easily
> defined by processor lines, with ARM it seems more logical to me to
> differentiate by silicon vendors.
>
> After much thinking I therefor suggest to implement the following
> change for the ARM architecture:
>
>
> master ARM repository:          Tom Rix
>
> Atmel (AT91):                   Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard
>
> Freescale (i.MX)                Magnus Lilja?
>                                Or are there any volunteers at Freescale?
>
> Marvell (PXA + IXP):            Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard
>
> Marvell (all other):            Prafulla Wadaskar
>
> Samsung (s3c, s5pc):            Are there any volunteers at Samsung?
>

I recommended the Minky Kang. He's working for several years for
u-boot from pxa, omap3, s3c6410 and s5pc1xx series.

But with our internal security policy it's hard to use ssh on u-boot
git. so we want to use u-boot-arm as base.

Thank you,
Kyungmin Park