[U-Boot] RFC: split ARM repo and distribute workload

[Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>]

On 23:57 Fri 04 Sep     , Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> ARM has always been one of the architectures that generated a big
> number of different processors and SoCs, but recently the activitiy in
> this area is literally exploding.  This is partially due to the fact
> that ARM is currently used in many designs, so many new ARM based
> processors and SoCs and even more new ARM boards show up, but another
> and at least as important change is that some silicon and board
> vendors have started to actively pushing their products into the
> U-Boot (and Linux) mainline source trees (and *welcome* they all
> are!).
> 
> It has become evident that this growing complexity has become way too
> massive to be shouldered by a single custodian, even a very active one
> like Jean-Christophe.
> 
> I think we have no other choice but to add more manpower to this task,
> i. e. split the ARM respository and distribute the workload across a
> few more custodians.
> 
> Unline with the Power architecture, where the split can be easily
> defined by processor lines, with ARM it seems more logical to me to
> differentiate by silicon vendors.
> 
> After much thinking I therefor suggest to implement the following
> change for the ARM architecture:
> 
> 
> master ARM repository:		Tom Rix
> 
> Atmel (AT91):			Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard
> 
> Marvell (PXA + IXP):		Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard
I decline it

Best Regards,
J.