From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Frysinger Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 20:37:39 -0500 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] Pull request u-boot-blackfin.git In-Reply-To: <20080224012225.D40BC24D0B@gemini.denx.de> References: <20080224012225.D40BC24D0B@gemini.denx.de> Message-ID: <200802232037.40287.vapier@gentoo.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On Saturday 23 February 2008, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > In message <200802231939.51739.vapier@gentoo.org> you wrote: > > of course i have. writing out rules is to codify the spirit of the > > process so that people can jump in and know how things works. however, > > the point of the rules isnt to have a rigid unchanging methodology, but > > to keep things flowing in the spirit: merge windows allow new fun stuff > > while the non-merge time is for bugfixes only. this of course assumes > > that the tree in question is stable/usable in the first place. if it > > isnt, then there isnt much point to locking out changes to move it in > > that direction. > > The tree in general is actually pretty stable/usable as of now; I > know only of a few (minor) problems. > > If the BF stuff is in bad shape, then I'm sorry about this, but 1) > you could have posted your stuff in the merge window like everybody > else, or 2) you have to wait until the next merge window like > everybody else. I will not destabilize the whole tree for a single > architecture. > > If you have bug fixes, please go on and post these and I will make > sure they go in as fast as possible. > > But I will not add major new code now. wrt Blackfin, those statements are conflicting. fixing the Blackfin tree involves major new code. of the changes i posted, only 2 or 3 touch Blackfin-specific pieces in files outside of Blackfin trees, and do so in a controlled manner (obj-$(CONFIG) in the Makefiles). those are not generally "bugfix" in nature though. but you dont really care: it's big changes that havent been posted to the u-boot list for review, only been reviewed in the Blackfin fork on blackfin.uclinux.org by our team / customers over the last year. -mike -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 827 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/attachments/20080223/ba14c162/attachment.pgp