On Thursday 17 April 2008, Detlev Zundel wrote: > Hi Mike, > > > On Monday 14 April 2008, Detlev Zundel wrote: > >> > we maintain a Blackfin-specific u-boot wiki that goes into quite a bit > >> > of detail, some of which is duplicated with the main u-boot wiki. how > >> > do people feel about extending the u-boot wiki to allow for > >> > arch-specific details ? > >> > >> What exactly do you have in mind? I surely don't see any principal > >> problem here. > >> > >> It would certainly be valuable to get all U-Boot related info collected > >> in a central place and have pointers wherever that make sense... > > > > from my reading of the wiki, it's more of a technical/command reference > > than a guide. the wiki we maintain is geared to be more of a guide. i > > think the two can be merged, i just dont want to convert things only to > > find out people dont want to take it that direction. > > Just to be clear, we are discussing the DULG wiki, right?
is there any other worth talking about :) > I agree that in the current state the documentation is more a reference > but IIRC that wasn't really a conscious design decision. It simply > turned out this way in the end. > > So I do not see any general problem in adding "guide style" sections in > there. Maybe then most of the current documentation can then be shifted > to a "commands reference" section. OK > One problem I see though is how to correctly adapt such sections to the > board specific nature of the DULG. Hopefully we can get away with > mostly generic text passages and only a few ifdefs. It would be very > helpful to know more concrete plans (outline!) to think further about > these implications. so talking to some people on our side and i realized i forgot about a lame (but important) aspect. we need to retain full copyright over our docs. we license it all under a non commercial creative commons license, but sometimes we get customer requests to include portions of our docs into their work but under their own rules. if i were to merge the our wiki with the DULG one, we couldnt in good faith continue that practice. so the wiki's will have to remain sep, but i can push content into the public one to improve it, just not vice versa. -mike
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