Re: Git branch for ARM patches pending for 4.3

[Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@xen.org>]

Sounds like some of the info in here should be added to 
http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_ARMv7_with_Virtualization_Extensions
Lars

On 01/08/2012 12:33, Ian Campbell wrote:
> We've got a lot of patches floating about which are a necessary baseline
> for on going ARM port work. Now that we have released 4.2.0-rc1 I think
> is inappropriate to keep committing ARM patches to mainline (even those
> which touch only ARM code, for a while I've not been committing ARM
> patches which touch generic bits).
>
> Rather than have everyone collate all the necessary patches themselves I
> have created a branch where I intend to collect patches which are
> basically ready but need to wait for the 4.3 dev cycle to open before
> they can go in (which a couple of exceptions for necessary but still in
> the HACK phase patches)
>
> The branch is:
>          git://xenbits.xen.org/people/ianc/xen-unstable.git arm-for-4.3
> and is based off:
>          git://xenbits.xen.org/people/aperard/xen.git staging
>
> The arm-for-4.3 branch contains patches which will need to be swapped
> out for non-HACK versions at some point and is therefore potentially
> rebasing.
>
> In fact I'm considering rebasing as a matter of course (rather than
> merging) such that we have a branch which is current against 4.3 when we
> come to sweep it in. Opinions from the potential consumers of the branch
> will be considered ;-)
>
> Ian.
>
>
>
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