[U-Boot] u-boot-socfpga repository

Wolfgang Denk
2014-09-12T22:14:46Z

Dear Dinh,

In message <54136276.6040109@opensource.altera.com> you wrote:
>
> > To get patches or new code into U-Boot mainline, these have to be
> > submitted to the U-Boot mailing list (among other purposes for
> > archival and that they get stored in the patchwork database). Then a
> > peer review takes place, and the responsible custodian finally applies
> > these patches to the respective custodian repository. Finally, he
> > sends a pull request to the next higher custodian - in case of SoCFPGA
> > that would be Albert as ARM custodian.
>
> Does the above process differ from the Linux community process in
> anyway? If not, then I've been doing the same for the Linux support for
> SOCFPGA on the rocketboards. The ARM-SOC maintainers have been pulling
> from the git repo at rocketboards for quite some time now. I think I can
> probably do the same for u-boot.

I think we are a bit more critical here in U-Boot. The repositories
we pull from are maintained by community-assigned custodians, who have
a proven track record not only as experienced developers, but also for
working with the community and being able to negotiate conflicts.

If Vince gets appointed as custodian for socfpga, there should be no
problem for him to automatically synchronize your u-boot-socfpga-next.git
repository with the U-Boot u-boot-socfpga one.

On the other hand - what exactly is the code you are referring to in
u-boot-socfpga-next.git ? At the moment, I see this:

-> git clone
git://git.rocketboards.org/u-boot-socfpga-next.git
Cloning into 'u-boot-socfpga-next'...
warning: You appear to have cloned an empty repository.
Checking connectivity... done.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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