[U-Boot] How to manage RMOBILE patches?

[Tom Rini]

On 09/05/2012 04:18 AM, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
> 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).

To be clear, what I'm saying is just add a few more branches to
u-boot-sh that Albert will pull (since they're ARM stuff).  Say
u-boot-sh/rmobile/master and u-boot-sh/rmobile/next.  Then not get too
hung up on which repository a merge message comes from. :)

-- 
Tom