New platforms

New platforms

[Brian Murphy]

Hi,
    I have a port of linux-mips to the Lasat (later Eicon) platform(s) -
based on vr4300, vr5000 and vr4120 chips. I would very much like
to have the code incorporated in the CVS at OSS. How do I go
about this?

/Brian

Re: New platforms

[Karsten Merker]

On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 12:17:17PM +0200, Brian Murphy wrote:

>     I have a port of linux-mips to the Lasat (later Eicon) platform(s) -
> based on vr4300, vr5000 and vr4120 chips. I would very much like
> to have the code incorporated in the CVS at OSS. How do I go
> about this?

Usually by splitting your patches into small chunks (one patch for
one feature) and submitting them to Ralf Baechle (ralf@gnu.org) and/or 
to this list.

Regards,
Karsten
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Re: New platforms

[James Simmons]

> Hi,
>     I have a port of linux-mips to the Lasat (later Eicon) platform(s) -
> based on vr4300, vr5000 and vr4120 chips. I would very much like
> to have the code incorporated in the CVS at OSS. How do I go
> about this?

Please at a look at the Linux MIPS project at sourceforge. We already have
several VR chipsets supported. 

http://linux-mips.sf.net

Re: New platforms

[Florian Lohoff]

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On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 01:16:53PM -0700, James Simmons wrote:
> > Hi,
> >     I have a port of linux-mips to the Lasat (later Eicon) platform(s) -
> > based on vr4300, vr5000 and vr4120 chips. I would very much like
> > to have the code incorporated in the CVS at OSS. How do I go
> > about this?
> 
> Please at a look at the Linux MIPS project at sourceforge. We already have
> several VR chipsets supported. 

The Eicons are not anything really embedded rather than Cobalt RaQ like.

Flo
PS: I dont like this split up tree - Currently Ralf is the one 
feeding mainstream so please stop this diversification of the trees
as the normal user gets completely confused which makes linux mips
a VERY BAD target and does not help any popularity for the mips targets.
We had the linux-vr desaster before which helped nothing but in
the end bound developer efforts which were useless in the end.
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Re: New platforms

[James Simmons]

> PS: I dont like this split up tree - Currently Ralf is the one 
> feeding mainstream so please stop this diversification of the trees
> as the normal user gets completely confused which makes linux mips
> a VERY BAD target and does not help any popularity for the mips targets.
> We had the linux-vr desaster before which helped nothing but in
> the end bound developer efforts which were useless in the end.

True. The problem is the slow migration to Linus tree and the slow
migration into the OSS tree. Here is a suggestion, how about using the BK
tree at bkbits.net. There is a mips tree there but it has never been used. 
The question is who is the admin of that tree so we can have access ? 

Re: New platforms

[Ilya]

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On Thu, 30 May 2002, James Simmons wrote:
>
> > PS: I dont like this split up tree - Currently Ralf is the one
> > feeding mainstream so please stop this diversification of the trees
> > as the normal user gets completely confused which makes linux mips
> > a VERY BAD target and does not help any popularity for the mips targets.
> > We had the linux-vr desaster before which helped nothing but in
> > the end bound developer efforts which were useless in the end.
>
> True. The problem is the slow migration to Linus tree and the slow
> migration into the OSS tree.
You can always pos your patches to the list, and whatever didn't make it
into the tree, can be picked up from there by interested parties.

> Here is a suggestion, how about using the BK
> tree at bkbits.net. There is a mips tree there but it has never been used.
> The question is who is the admin of that tree so we can have access ?
Are you saing "let's make yet another tree"? Ugh...

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Re: New platforms

[James Simmons]

> > True. The problem is the slow migration to Linus tree and the slow
> > migration into the OSS tree.
> You can always pos your patches to the list, and whatever didn't make it
> into the tree, can be picked up from there by interested parties.

Now that I have time I plan to do that.

> > Here is a suggestion, how about using the BK
> > tree at bkbits.net. There is a mips tree there but it has never been used.
> > The question is who is the admin of that tree so we can have access ?
> Are you saing "let's make yet another tree"? Ugh...

No. I'm talking about having a BK tree to use to sync up to Linus with.
This way the OSS and SF tree and push into the BK tree and have no issues.

Re: New platforms

[Florian Lohoff]

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On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 12:17:41PM -0700, James Simmons wrote:
> 
> No. I'm talking about having a BK tree to use to sync up to Linus with.
> This way the OSS and SF tree and push into the BK tree and have no issues.
> 

I dont know how others feel which would need to work more with this but
i don't like BK's license (and its advocat Larry 'need to earn money' McVoy).

Forcing people into creating seperate trees due to licensing issues of
the SCCS is not really something we need now.

Flo
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Re: New platforms

[Florian Lohoff]

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On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 03:16:10PM -0700, James Simmons wrote:
> > PS: I dont like this split up tree - Currently Ralf is the one 
> > feeding mainstream so please stop this diversification of the trees
> > as the normal user gets completely confused which makes linux mips
> > a VERY BAD target and does not help any popularity for the mips targets.
> > We had the linux-vr desaster before which helped nothing but in
> > the end bound developer efforts which were useless in the end.
> 
> True. The problem is the slow migration to Linus tree and the slow
> migration into the OSS tree. Here is a suggestion, how about using the BK
> tree at bkbits.net. There is a mips tree there but it has never been used.. 
> The question is who is the admin of that tree so we can have access ? 

Bitkeeper is evil non free software i will hopfully never be required
to use.

If the migration is to slow help Ralf - Ralf is handing out CVS access
to those he trusts developing in the correct direction. I also think
that there are ways to split up feeding back the stuff. Generating
one another tree wont help a lot.

Flo
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