[U-Boot] Prospective contributer

[nilan chamara]

Thanks Jegan, for the valuable information.
I will read those first, and will submit to mailing list if there is any
question.

When you say driver-model, is it the same model where u-Boot device tree
support?

Thanks
Nilan

On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 4:22 PM, Jagan Teki <jagannadh.teki at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 6 August 2016 at 08:03, nilan chamara <nilan.uoc at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have been working as a Software/Firmware engineer for 10 years now,
> > and keen to contribute to UBoot code base with some peripheral device
> > driver patches.
> >
> > I would like to know the procedure to follow, and where should I create
> my
> > patches (from main git repo or  Custodians
> > <http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/Custodians> repo).
>
> Some times custodian repo's are move forward/backward wrt main git
> repo based on their work, so its better to use main git repo/master
> for new development/updates.Refer this[1] for procedure for patch
> submission.
>
> >
> > To start with I am expecting to submit patches which support LED driver
> > chip / Temperature Sensor / Battery fuel gauge  to UBoot.
>
> Please note that u-boot drivers need to written in driver-model[2].
>
> [1] http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/Patches
> [2] http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=tree;f=doc/driver-model;h=
> 000983d1fe66a54d21c4b5cb766b52ed77c01ae5;hb=refs/heads/master
>
> thanks!
> --
> Jagan Teki
> Free Software Engineer | www.openedev.com
> U-Boot, Linux | Upstream Maintainer
> Hyderabad, India.
>