Re: Looking for mentoring submitting my patch for SYS_BOOTM_LEN adjustement for riscv

[E Shattow <e@freeshell.de>]

Hi Martin,

On 7/10/25 14:50, Martin Herren wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> My first post here. Is there someone willing to mentor me to submit my first patch ?
> 
> The patch is the following 3 commits:
> https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/compare/master...MartinHerren:u-boot:set_default_sys_bootm_len_for_riscv
> 
> It adjusts the SYS_BOOTM_LEN for RISCV to the most commonly used value.
> 
> For context, working on rebasing the Allwinner D1 branch on some u-boot fork to up-to-date U-Boot I saw that the strange way in which SYS_BOOTM_LEN was patched in Yocto's meta-riscv layer was not working anymore, so I tried a clean fix and thought an adjustment of the SYS_BOOTM_LEN's default for riscv might make sense.
> 
> So if anyone is willing to mentor me in submitting this patch this would be welcome !
> It is mostly the patman part that is still a big unknown for me and i'm afraid of spamming far too many people trying by myself otherwise.
> 
> Or does this patch not make sense at all ?
> 
> Thanks !
> 
> Martin

Without comment to the content of your patch series I think such review
happens on the mailing list and in that way patchwork [1] can track it
and it's just how things seem to be done for U-Boot upstream. Please do
format-patch and send-email your series with a cover letter to the
mailing list.

1: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/uboot/list/

Best regards,

-E Shattow