[U-Boot] How to manage RMOBILE patches?

[Albert ARIBAUD]

Hi Nobuhiro,

On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 11:26:37 +0900, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu
<iwamatsu at nigauri.org> wrote:

> 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.

This just means that they'll end up on u-boot/master from u-boot.sh (and
from there into u-boot-arm later on).

> Best regards,
>   Nobuhiro



Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.