From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Subject: Re: Representing Embedded Architectures at the Kernel Summit Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:25:32 -0500 Message-ID: <1243967132.4280.11.camel@mulgrave.site> References: <1243956140.4229.25.camel@mulgrave.int.hansenpartnership.com> <20090602172941.GL3095@hansolo.jdub.homelinux.org> <1243964577.4229.49.camel@mulgrave.int.hansenpartnership.com> <20090602175244.GB10973@cuplxvomd02.corp.sa.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20090602175244.GB10973@cuplxvomd02.corp.sa.net> Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: David VomLehn Cc: Josh Boyer , ksummit-2009-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 10:52 -0700, David VomLehn wrote: > On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 12:42:57PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 13:29 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > > > Which leads me to suggest that it is at least worth having someone with an > > > embedded focus at KS to simply keep an eye out for impacts of generic changes. > > > "Feature parity" is something I often deal with in trying to keep ppc4xx up to > > > speed with the rest of the archs in the kernel. > > > > We're fine with this, if that's how the embedded guys would like to do > > it ... how do you want to nominate the "someone with an embedded focus"? > > We chose the topic driven approach because that's the one it's easiest > > for the Kernel Summit Programme Committee to look at and make attendance > > decisions based upon. However, if all the embedded people want to > > choose their own representatives, that's fine by us too ... as long as > > you can devise a fair process. > > Now, James, I think you haven't been paying attention to the embedded Linux > world...asking us to devise *any* process is much more chaotic than herding > cats. Expecting something everyone agrees is fair would probably take until > at least KS 2010. That being said, we have three people who are listed in > MAINTAINERS under embedded Linux. We might start by seeing which of them > might take up the mantle and vote on the linux-embedded mailing list. Even for someone as inattentive as me, the general problems of getting embedded people to agree the sky is blue did impinge on the peripheral consciousness. Thus: If you can come up with such a process in a timely fashion then fine ... if not, we'll do the topic based one suggested by the PC. James