Re: [PATCH] [rpi4b] Make bootable rpi4b model

["Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>]

On 22/5/23 14:41, Kambalin, Sergey wrote:

>> Could you please tell me what size is appropriate for a single patch?
> 
> The most important things for patch splitting are:
>   * everything still has to compile cleanly
>   * the contents of a single patch should be a coherent single
>     thing that it makes sense to review in one part
> 
> If there's something in there that only touches 20 lines of
> code but is a coherent single change, it's fine to have that in
> its own patch -- small patches are easy to review.
> 
> At the upper end, I tend to think a patch is a bit big
> at around 200 lines, but for the specific case of "here
> is a new device" bigger than that is OK, because it's
> just adding new files rather than merging changes into
> existing ones.
> 
> https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/devel/submitting-a-patch.html 
> <https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/devel/submitting-a-patch.html>
> has some other advice on patch submission, if you haven't
> read that yet.

FWIW example of series adding the Pi Zero:

https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20201024170127.3592182-1-f4bug@amsat.org/