From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:37:01 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] RFC: split ARM repo and distribute workload In-Reply-To: <20090904215722.828A2832E8DE@gemini.denx.de> References: <20090904215722.828A2832E8DE@gemini.denx.de> Message-ID: <20090921113701.GP29905@game.jcrosoft.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On 23:57 Fri 04 Sep , Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Hello everybody, > > ARM has always been one of the architectures that generated a big > number of different processors and SoCs, but recently the activitiy in > this area is literally exploding. This is partially due to the fact > that ARM is currently used in many designs, so many new ARM based > processors and SoCs and even more new ARM boards show up, but another > and at least as important change is that some silicon and board > vendors have started to actively pushing their products into the > U-Boot (and Linux) mainline source trees (and *welcome* they all > are!). > > It has become evident that this growing complexity has become way too > massive to be shouldered by a single custodian, even a very active one > like Jean-Christophe. > > I think we have no other choice but to add more manpower to this task, > i. e. split the ARM respository and distribute the workload across a > few more custodians. > > Unline with the Power architecture, where the split can be easily > defined by processor lines, with ARM it seems more logical to me to > differentiate by silicon vendors. > > After much thinking I therefor suggest to implement the following > change for the ARM architecture: > > > master ARM repository: Tom Rix > > Atmel (AT91): Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard > > Marvell (PXA + IXP): Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard I decline it Best Regards, J.