From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Paul Gortmaker" Subject: Re: Adding a new platform Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:19:06 -0400 Message-ID: <7d1d9c250808192019g6ec73ec7x53563b8ad2130df@mail.gmail.com> References: <48AB0A7A.8040209@cisco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=lTZijuCVnR909uU0j1pOSYcvFEKX808/DZcOx/yDhKw=; b=eJxxGow9kGRwKDCQwY0O1FJv/qgmrzWH7FAWMLfXRp9qsQ6r0vIdKFVHy2f4HB7WlC 2s5/BqzrBfZITZ8JxLP0uw8Q0e3vH5qIt1+62tcDjLFsyhKZM46wa3m0tFczw9YlP1CM Mbo8dCtkyS/eNn6kRqujL5YEHPPNMEv8eKYVE= In-Reply-To: <48AB0A7A.8040209@cisco.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: David VomLehn Cc: Ralf Baechle , Linux Embedded Maillist , corbet@lwn.net On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 2:01 PM, David VomLehn wrote: > I'm working to educate our management on the need to get our platform in the > kernel mainline. I expect I will be asked to tell them how much work this > is. What do we need to do to add a new MIPS platform? Based on the phrase "educate our management" -- I would strongly suggest you have a look at Jonathan Corbet's document that describes the process and the eventual value-add of having things in-kernel -- with an audience of non-kernel hackers in mind. I think this will really assist you in your efforts, and I'm glad that Jonathan put the time into this that he did. His original post can be viewed here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/29/363 or here: http://lwn.net/Articles/291967/ Paul. > -- > David VomLehn > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >