[U-Boot] How to manage RMOBILE patches?

[Nobuhiro Iwamatsu]

Hi,

On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 2:36 AM, Tom Rini <trini at ti.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 09:15:56PM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
>> Dear Nobuhiro Iwamatsu,
>>
>> In message <CABMQnVLBEEjcEtfTzdeThHfTLp=b24QSOgnFjbZr-8YWYTJUhg at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>> >
>> > I am working supporting  Renesas RMOBILE to U-Boot.
>> > Renesas's RMOBILE SoC family contains an ARM Cortex-A9, and this uses
>> > the same IP as SH.
>> > (For example, timer, ether, serial, etc.)
>> > I already sent to patches of rmobile, I got review from some developers.
>> > And the patch is managed by the arm/rmobile branch of u-boot-sh[0]
>> > which I have maintained, now.
>> > Since I had you take the patch of rmobile into an ARM repository, I
>> > consulted with Albert about the
>> > future development approach.
>> >
>> > We thought two methods are considered.
>> > One is Albert picks up a patch from ML to ARM repository,
>>
>> As this is ARM code, this appears the most natural approach to me.
>>
>> > Another is whether to have pull from the repository by having a
>> > repository for rmobile made.
>>
>> If this is an ARM SoC, then it should go through the ARM repo - even
>> if we should later decide that there is so much traffic that a
>> separate rmobile repo would be sustified, thi would still be a
>> sub-repo, which Albert would pull from.
>
> Another option, which Mike is using for, iirc, sf and blackfin, is just
> to add rmobile-master / rmobile-next as branches to the u-boot-sh
> repository.

Yes, this is one of easy way. But Albert won't  pull form u-boot-sh, if
If my understanding is not wrong.

Best regards,
  Nobuhiro
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