Re: ADI Blackfin patch for kernel 2.6.14

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 07:26:31PM +0800, Luke Yang wrote:
> > One concern when adding a new architecture is: will it be maintained
> > long-term?  We don't want to merge an arch and then have it bitrot.  Who is
> > behind this port, and how do we know that they'll still be around and doing
> > things in two years' time?
> 
>    I don't clearly know the process of maintaining an arch in kernel. 
> But I am sure we can follow the right process.  My question is: How do
> they maintain the m68knommu arch? I think it need the uclinux patch to
> run on real platfrom. What is the process like?

The process is like maintaining any other part of the kernel:
  - Try to make sure it works on all releases (harder to do with a full
    arch, I know, but not impossible.)
  - keep it up to date with bugfixes and the such
  - be responsive to questions from other developers
  - accept patches from others and intregrate them into the mainline
    version in a reasonable ammount of time.

Does this arch have corporate support behind it to maintain it over
time, or is something you are going to do in your spare time (which is
fine, just curious.)

thanks,

greg k-h