suggestions for latest code that offers best support of OMAP35x EVM

suggestions for latest code that offers best support of OMAP35x EVM

[twebb]

Not being very familiar with the kernel development process and git,
I'm hoping someone can suggest which code from the l-o git offers the
best support of the OMAP35x EVM.  I'm guessing it would be the code
tagged "v2.6.27-omap1" but I'm not sure.  What's the general
difference between tags "v2.6.27" and "v2.6.27-omap1"?

On a more general note, is there documentation somewhere that
describes the kernel development process, and how tags are used (or
not) to identify particular stability points in the development
lifecycle of a particular tree (like linux-omap)?

Thanks

Re: suggestions for latest code that offers best support of OMAP35x EVM

[Tony Lindgren]

* twebb <taliaferro62@gmail.com> [081030 09:22]:
> Not being very familiar with the kernel development process and git,
> I'm hoping someone can suggest which code from the l-o git offers the
> best support of the OMAP35x EVM.  I'm guessing it would be the code
> tagged "v2.6.27-omap1" but I'm not sure.  What's the general
> difference between tags "v2.6.27" and "v2.6.27-omap1"?

The difference is v2.6.27 is a tag by Linus, v2.6.27-omap1 is the
first patchset of omap patches on top of Linus' v2.6.27.

If we need to add more omap specific fixes on top of that, we'll
tag v2.6.27-omap2 and so on.

> On a more general note, is there documentation somewhere that
> describes the kernel development process, and how tags are used (or
> not) to identify particular stability points in the development
> lifecycle of a particular tree (like linux-omap)?

There are various git howto sites, also read Documentation/Submit*.

I'm not aware of any docs that would describe the -rc tags and merge
windows, but I'm sure something like that exists somewhere :)

Anybody got a link?

Tony

Re: suggestions for latest code that offers best support of OMAP35x EVM

[Felipe Balbi]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:41:15AM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> * twebb <taliaferro62@gmail.com> [081030 09:22]:
> > Not being very familiar with the kernel development process and git,
> > I'm hoping someone can suggest which code from the l-o git offers the
> > best support of the OMAP35x EVM.  I'm guessing it would be the code
> > tagged "v2.6.27-omap1" but I'm not sure.  What's the general
> > difference between tags "v2.6.27" and "v2.6.27-omap1"?
> 
> The difference is v2.6.27 is a tag by Linus, v2.6.27-omap1 is the
> first patchset of omap patches on top of Linus' v2.6.27.
> 
> If we need to add more omap specific fixes on top of that, we'll
> tag v2.6.27-omap2 and so on.
> 
> > On a more general note, is there documentation somewhere that
> > describes the kernel development process, and how tags are used (or
> > not) to identify particular stability points in the development
> > lifecycle of a particular tree (like linux-omap)?
> 
> There are various git howto sites, also read Documentation/Submit*.
> 
> I'm not aware of any docs that would describe the -rc tags and merge
> windows, but I'm sure something like that exists somewhere :)
> 
> Anybody got a link?

Documentation/development-process/*

-- 
balbi