[U-Boot] How to manage RMOBILE patches?

[Nobuhiro Iwamatsu]

Hi, Tom.

On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:17 PM, Tom Rini <trini at ti.com> wrote:
> 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. :)
>

I was going to do by how to explain you.
However, I think that Albert mistook by my shortage of explanation.
Thank you for following up.

Nobuhiro
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