Re: Is the hisilicon tree maintained ?

[Wei Xu <xuwei5@hisilicon.com>]

Hi Daniel,

On 2018/2/2 14:29, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> On 02/02/2018 15:04, Wei Xu wrote:
>> Hi Daniel,
>>
>> On 2018/2/2 13:53, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>>> On 02/02/2018 14:48, Wei Xu wrote:
>>>> Hi Daniel,
>>>>
>>>> On 2018/2/2 13:34, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>>>>> On 02/02/2018 13:10, Wei Xu wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Daniel,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2018/2/2 12:05, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>>>>>>> On 02/02/2018 12:42, Wei Xu wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi Daniel,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 2018/2/2 6:59, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hi Wei Xu,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I found in the MAINTAINERS file the hisilicon tree is at:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> https://github.com/hisilicon/linux-hisi
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> But, (except I missed it) I didn't find any update since Nov, 2017.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Is that tree maintained ?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Yes. It is still maintained.
>>>>>>>> You can find update from other branches or the tags like next/dt64.
>>>>>>>> I will update the master when every rc1 is released.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is there a development branch for something else than the DT ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sorry, no developing branch is there.
>>>>>> But we will create one if needed like the topic-acpi-mbigen branch.
>>>>>> And most of development branches are kept in another git repo.
>>>>>
>>>>> What is the purpose of this tree? Why not rely on arm-soc?
>>>>
>>>> Currently it is mainly a place to pick up the patches
>>>> and save the pull request.
>>>
>>> What is the other repo with development branches you mentioned above ?
>>
>> Sorry, they are private repos in the github hisilicon and are for the SoC
>> enablement like hip06, hip07 and so on.
>> But if you can share what kind of information you want, I can create a
>> public branch in the hisilicon/linux-hisi repo if I have those.
> 
> Actually I was expecting to see an up-to-date branch I can rely on to
> base my patches.

As a arm sub SoC maintainer, the patches come to me mainly are related with
dts, defconfig, arch/arm/hisilicon and drivers/platform.
Generally you can based your patches on rc1 and there is very few case your
patches will be conflicted with others.

> 
> Apparently there is very few dev on this tree. Why not change the tree
> to arm-soc in the MAINTAINERS file ?

Yes, no much development on this tree.
But it is still benefit for hisilicon and the community.
And other silicon vendors also do like this.

Best Regards,
Wei

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