From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L9sF8-0002L9-V0 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:22:35 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L9sF8-0002Kt-AZ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:22:34 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54102 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L9sF8-0002Kq-38 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:22:34 -0500 Received: from mail.renesas.com ([202.234.163.13]:33874 helo=mail01.idc.renesas.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L9sF7-0000Uv-J3 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:22:34 -0500 Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:21:43 +0900 From: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PROPOSITION] SH4 workflow improvement In-reply-to: <493BFC50.9070506@juno.dti.ne.jp> Sender: iwamatsu.nobuhiro@renesas.com Message-id: <493DD637.8040004@renesas.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <20081206120741.GB2977@game.jcrosoft.org> <20081206143719.6f2d209a.kristoffer.ericson@gmail.com> <493BFC50.9070506@juno.dti.ne.jp> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Shin-ichiro KAWASAKI Cc: Kristoffer Ericson , Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Aurelien Jarno , takasi-y@ops.dti.ne.jp Shin-ichiro KAWASAKI wrote: > Kristoffer Ericson wrote: >> On Sat, 6 Dec 2008 13:07:41 +0100 >> Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Actually it's difficult to work on the improvement of SH4 >>> because we do not have a place to work. >> I've noticed the same, the main qemu repository >> doesn't contain much in the way of SH4. Seems to >> take awhile to get stuff applied upstreams. > > I have same thought, also. > >>> My idea is to create a git repos to coordinate the SH4 patches >>> >>> I propose this because I've try to test different patch send to the ML >>> and it's difficult because you can not apply them simply to generate a >>> patch series suitable. >>> >>> For this I've create a git here >>> http://uboot.jcrosoft.org/git?p=qemu-sh4.git;a=summary >>> >>> If you have a better place to put I've no problem with it. >>> >>> The final goal is allow us to have a patch series on which we can send >>> a pull request to have it applied in the SVN >>> >>> Takashi YOSHII, Shin-ichiro KAWASAKI I've try to merge your patches on >>> this tree please take a look and tell me if I do something wrong > > I think it is one of the good ideas. I'm trying the git repository. Thanks. > > And I wonder why the merges of SH4 patches to the upstream are slow. > My guess is that the sent patches are not reviewed enough, and main QEMU developers > are too busy to spare time for them. Reviewing on SH4 related patches by QEMU-SH4 > developers might be a help. Any comments on this idea? > I also think so. I agree with management with Git. However, it is necessary to think the patch is managed and it is taken up-stream. I think that it will do the fork the way things are going. We might have it commit up-stream by deciding the manager of SH. Best regards, Nobuhiro