[U-Boot] [PATCH 3/4] efikamx: update to Efika MX Smarttop and Smartbook boards

Matt Sealey
2012-08-18T21:02:17Z

On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Stefano Babic <sbabic@denx.de> wrote:
> On 17/08/2012 20:19, Matt Sealey wrote:
>
> Anyway, who will maintain the efikas in future ? Marek, do you hold it,
> or Matt will take this job ?

I'll do it but I doubt I'm going to be around as much as Marek. What
I'm a little fearful of is having patches try and hit the Efika stuff
and me not having much time that day to review, they either stagnate
or get accepted anyway breaking something. I can't test every patch
everyone sends, we just want to be sure it's hit a certain level of
quality and solve some of the issues we hacked around at the Freescale
BSP level are in mainline as we simply can't use the BSP version
anymore (doesn't support bootz or device trees...)

> In last case I would like to see a patch for the MAINTAINER file.

I'll submit it when I feel like we're actually being "forced" to
maintain it. I am of two minds; I will be the responsible party if
needs be, but that means Efika MX stuff is going to be commercially
driven by our needs (i.e. runs our boot scripts, supports the board
the way we dictate (no video, no usb keyboards..), no changes to
support "developers" if they are simply being too needy), and if it
doesn't suit us in terms of breaking something or changing behaviour
wildly, we'll NACK the crap out of it. If that's acceptable, sure...
Marek says U-Boot doesn't follow this development model, but that
would put Denx out of business.

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Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa.com>
Product Development Analyst, Genesi USA, Inc.