[U-Boot] mini summit talk proposal: "Getting SoC vendors to work with upstream u-boot"

[U-Boot] mini summit talk proposal: "Getting SoC vendors to work with upstream u-boot"

[Hans de Goede]

Hi All,

I would to give a talk (more an intro to a group wide discussion) on
how to get (more) manufacturers engaged in upstreaming their work /
working directly with upstream from day one.

My own experience in this lies with the Allwinner sunxi support,
where Allwinner themselves are shipping a quite old u-boot, which
is not even fully functional as it gets chainloaded by a custom
loader which sets up RAM first. Thanks to the work of various
people in the community we've a fully functional u-boot (replacing
the custom loader) for sun4i, sun5i and sun7i. But we are still
e.g. waiting for someone to get sun6i support in place.

This is not good, so I would like to give a talk with some
proposals to (try to) get more manufacturers working with upstream,
and then have a discussion on this.

Biography:
Hans has been a Linux developer since 1996, working on a wide variety
of projects, lots of Fedora packaging work, writing various hwmon kernel drivers,
(re)writing many webcam drivers, writing libv4l, various usb kernel work, libusb
maintainership, Allwinner sunxi kernel and u-boot work.

Since 2008 Hans works for Red Hat, besides continuing all the FOSS work he did before,
at Red Hat he has worked on anaconda the Fedora / Red Hat installer, parted (the partition tool),
Spice and usb-redirection under qemu, and currently he works on the input stack for
wayland and new touchpad support for the kernel.

Regards,

Hans

[U-Boot] mini summit talk proposal: "Getting SoC vendors to work with upstream u-boot"

[Detlev Zundel]

Hi Hans,

> I would to give a talk (more an intro to a group wide discussion) on
> how to get (more) manufacturers engaged in upstreaming their work /
> working directly with upstream from day one.

This is very welcome indeed, thanks!

> My own experience in this lies with the Allwinner sunxi support,
> where Allwinner themselves are shipping a quite old u-boot, which
> is not even fully functional as it gets chainloaded by a custom
> loader which sets up RAM first. Thanks to the work of various
> people in the community we've a fully functional u-boot (replacing
> the custom loader) for sun4i, sun5i and sun7i. But we are still
> e.g. waiting for someone to get sun6i support in place.
>
> This is not good, so I would like to give a talk with some
> proposals to (try to) get more manufacturers working with upstream,
> and then have a discussion on this.

Sounds very good to me.

> Biography:
> Hans has been a Linux developer since 1996, working on a wide variety
> of projects, lots of Fedora packaging work, writing various hwmon
> kernel drivers,
> (re)writing many webcam drivers, writing libv4l, various usb kernel
> work, libusb
> maintainership, Allwinner sunxi kernel and u-boot work.
>
> Since 2008 Hans works for Red Hat, besides continuing all the FOSS
> work he did before,
> at Red Hat he has worked on anaconda the Fedora / Red Hat installer,
> parted (the partition tool),
> Spice and usb-redirection under qemu, and currently he works on the
> input stack for
> wayland and new touchpad support for the kernel.

I reserved a 30 minutes time slot for you on our wiki[1].

Best wishes
  Detlev

[1] http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/MiniSummitELCE2014

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