From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Albert ARIBAUD Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 13:18:39 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] How to manage RMOBILE patches? In-Reply-To: References: <20120903191556.3467D203EDC@gemini.denx.de> <20120904173610.GB23991@bill-the-cat> Message-ID: <20120905131839.066977f2@lilith> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Hi Nobuhiro, On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 11:26:37 +0900, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 2:36 AM, Tom Rini wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 09:15:56PM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > >> Dear Nobuhiro Iwamatsu, > >> > >> In message > >> > >> you wrote: > >> > > >> > I am working supporting Renesas RMOBILE to U-Boot. > >> > Renesas's RMOBILE SoC family contains an ARM Cortex-A9, and this > >> > uses the same IP as SH. > >> > (For example, timer, ether, serial, etc.) > >> > I already sent to patches of rmobile, I got review from some > >> > developers. And the patch is managed by the arm/rmobile branch > >> > of u-boot-sh[0] which I have maintained, now. > >> > Since I had you take the patch of rmobile into an ARM > >> > repository, I consulted with Albert about the > >> > future development approach. > >> > > >> > We thought two methods are considered. > >> > One is Albert picks up a patch from ML to ARM repository, > >> > >> As this is ARM code, this appears the most natural approach to me. > >> > >> > Another is whether to have pull from the repository by having a > >> > repository for rmobile made. > >> > >> If this is an ARM SoC, then it should go through the ARM repo - > >> even if we should later decide that there is so much traffic that a > >> separate rmobile repo would be sustified, thi would still be a > >> sub-repo, which Albert would pull from. > > > > Another option, which Mike is using for, iirc, sf and blackfin, is > > just to add rmobile-master / rmobile-next as branches to the > > u-boot-sh repository. > > Yes, this is one of easy way. But Albert won't pull form u-boot-sh, > if If my understanding is not wrong. This just means that they'll end up on u-boot/master from u-boot.sh (and from there into u-boot-arm later on). > Best regards, > Nobuhiro Amicalement, -- Albert.