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

[Prafulla Wadaskar]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: u-boot-bounces at lists.denx.de 
> [mailto:u-boot-bounces at lists.denx.de] On Behalf Of Kyungmin Park
> Sent: Monday, September 07, 2009 6:36 AM
> To: Wolfgang Denk
> Cc: u-boot at lists.denx.de; Magnus Lilja; Minkyu Kang
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] RFC: split ARM repo and distribute workload
> 
> 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
Hi Wolfgang/Jean
Thanks for this responsibility.
I acknowledge to accept this opportunity.
I suggest to create u-boot-mrvl.git to manage all other Marvell support including current Kirkwood.

Thanks and regards..
Prafulla . .
 
> >
> > 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
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