[U-Boot] Custodians, Maintainers and old platforms

Tom Rini
2012-10-01T17:11:29Z

On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 05:50:42AM +0300, Stefan Kristiansson wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 05:28:18PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > (I had attempted to bcc this to all listed maintainer, but that upset
> > Google greatly. I'll send this out manually instead later).
> >
> > I'd like to put this out here for custodians and maintainers to
> > consider, especially in light of the device model work that's not just
> > coming but has already started being posted.
> >
> > One of the keys to the success of U-Boot has been the number of
> > platforms that are supported. But part of supporting platforms is
> > needing people to volunteer to maintain them long term and help with
> > testing changes and so forth. So first of all, I've just tagged
> > v2012.10-rc1. Please give this at least a basic test on whatever
> > platforms you're able to.
> >
> > Second, with this, my next branch is now open and I'd like to start it
> > by asking that platforms that people wish to abandon be removed. With
> > the device model, lots of code will need adjusting and while it's
> > mechanical in ways, it still needs to be run-time tested. And it's
> > changes that someone must do. I know others have suggested adding or
> > better publicizing our to-remove file. But one of the advantages of git
> > is that it's easy to bring platforms back, should someone later wish to
> > bring it back. But this also requires the removal to be done cleanly.
> >
> > All of that said, I would like to stress that if you maintain a platform
> > and you wish to help with the testing and perhaps even the conversion
> > effort, no matter the age of the platform it would be welcome and
> > appreciated.
> >
> > And finally, if everyone really wants to go another direction with old
> > platforms, I'm open to discussion of course. I just want to miminize
> > work done on platforms that aren't active and we don't know if they will
> > come back.
> >
>
> This made me realise that there are two old OpenRISC patches floating
> around that hasn't been applied to mainline.
>
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/142511/
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/142510/

Queued this up in patchwork, thanks.

--
Tom
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