From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 12:48:30 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" To: David Woodhouse Cc: Embedded Linux PPC list Subject: Re: getting support for command-line flash partitioning In-Reply-To: <1088695697.14216.3060.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> Message-ID: References: <1088695697.14216.3060.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 10:45 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> so how is this being added to the files? as in, who will add this >> feature to the individual files, and get it pushed upstream, if that's >> what's going to happen? just curious as to how this feature will >> eventually end up in the mainstream. > > The owner of each board support ('map') file is expected to make sure > that it's kept up to date in my CVS tree. Periodically I push updates to > Linus, although individuals are welcome to send their own changes to > Linus as soon as they're committed to CVS too. ok, i was just trying to figure out how the different versions of the kernel i have have such differing levels of that CMDLINE support. the original kernel tree i have from embedded planet (approx. 2.4.22) has a small number of map files that make any reference to that feature. the CVS tree from denx (2.4.25) has considerably more. and neither the latest "bk pull" of the 2.5/2.6 kernel from bkbits.net, or the standard 2.6 kernel on my fedora core system has *any* support for that feature in the map files (even though the kernel has the internal support). i was just trying to figure out the logical flow of how that feature worked its way in. thanks. rday ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/