Re: Pending April patches

[Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>]

* Budhee Jamaich <budheej@gmail.com> [070503 05:26]:
> On 5/2/07, Woodruff, Richard <r-woodruff2@ti.com> wrote:
> >The root of all 2.6 trees is kernel.org, then linux-omap tree.  The TI
> >_downloadable_ trees branch off at a point in time as Tony said, usually
> >for pre/new-silicon or other major engagements which are not easily done
> >on the live tree.  Then beyond that you will have vendor trees like
> >MontaVista or WindRiver. These vendors combine aspects off all trees
> >into their final bundles. In cases I'm familiar with these final trees
> >are what go into production in multi-million quantities.
> 
> Thank you so much people for the help.
> I'm really trying to understand the hows the process works, and you really
> help.
> One last questions please:
> What is the process of moving new code from Linus' git tree to
> the linux-omap tree ?
> I bet it is not simple to merge many of Linus' commits..
> Thank you once again and sorry for the questions...

We pull from Linus' tree to linux-omap on regular basis, usually every
time there's a new -rc release or something important gets merged.

Then we try to send all omap patches upstream, so eventually we should
be using Linus' tree + some omap driver patches.

Tony