[U-Boot] [SoCFPGA] next steps

[Pavel Machek]

On Wed 2014-10-08 10:58:24, Michal Simek wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 10/07/2014 02:45 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > Hey,
> > 
> > given that we now have most of the u-boot socfpga stuff in mainline, I decided 
> > it would be a good idea to list what we're still missing and we should also 
> > decide how to move on now.
> > 
> > First thing I should probably clarify is the late acceptance of the socfpga 
> > patches. This is certainly not something we do regularly and is one of the
> > worst possible practices to do, but this time it felt rather important to get
> > the platform in shape, so this exception happened. Furthermore, all of the code
> > in u-boot-socfpga should be based on u-boot-arm and should be submitted through
> > the u-boot-arm repository, not directly to u-boot .
> 
> Platform was in this shape for a while that's why I can't see the reason why this happen.
> 
> Tom: Does it mean that every platform which is not in good shape can go directly to the mainline
> in any time? It is definitely something which is good to know.

Well, the platform was in such a wrong shape that it would be hard to
cause regressions, and code was self-contained enough that it would
not break anything.

I'm not a Tom, but it makes sense to me.
									Pavel
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