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

[Prafulla Wadaskar]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD [mailto:plagnioj at jcrosoft.com] 
> Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2009 4:48 AM
> To: Wolfgang Denk
> Cc: u-boot at lists.denx.de; Tom Rix; Magnus Lilja; Prafulla 
> Wadaskar; Dirk Behme; Minkyu Kang; Kyungmin Park; Harald Welte
> Subject: Re: RFC: split ARM repo and distribute workload
> 
> On 23:57 Fri 04 Sep     , Wolfgang Denk 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:
> > 
> > 
> 
> I think this will be better
> 
> master ARM repository :		Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard
> 
> Freescale (i.MX)		Magnus Lilja?
> 				Or are there any volunteers at 
> Freescale?
> 
> Marvell				Prafulla Wadaskar
This makes more sense for u-boot-mrvl.git (proposed) to go entire Marvell specific patches through it
Regards..
Prafulla . .

> 
> Samsung (s3c, s5pc):		Are there any volunteers at Samsung?
> 
> Texas Instruments (OMAP):	Tom Rix
> 
> Best Regards,
> J.
>