On Jul 21, 7:54 am, William Enck <[email protected]> wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Xinyu Chen<[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On Jul 16, 10:57 pm, Greg KH <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 4:24 AM, Xinyu Chen<[email protected]> wrote: > > >>>> Hi Greg > >>>> Sorry for confusing you. Actually our company, Freescale now wants to > >>>> put i.mx series kernel supporting android to android.git.kernel.org. > >>>> Just like the git: qualcomm kernel/msm.git and TI kernel/omap.git, we > >>>> would like to create kernel/imx.git. > >>>> Then we want to know how to make effort to create kernel/imx.git on > >>>> android.git.kernel.org? > >>> Talk to your Android representative about that, it's a logistics problem. > >> You mean OHA? Freescale has not joined OHA yet. > > > Then it might be difficult to get Google to do anything for you :) > > Wow. I hope that was sarcasm. As a last resort, you can host your own > git mirror for the kernel repository. > > local_manifest.xml is your friend. I've been using it to "mirror and > extend" certain git repositories for my research. It works very similar > to the building for dream instructions > (http://source.android.com/documentation/building-for-dream) except you > specify your own "remote" attribute. > > For example, you could do: > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <manifest> > <remote name="freescale" > fetch="<git_url>" /> > <remove-project name="kernel/common"/> > <project path="kernel" remote="freescale" name="kernel/imx" /> > </manifest> > > I use this technique mainly for an SSH git URL (to share our research > changes without mirroring the entire Android code base), but there's no > reason why freescale can't host their own repository to share it with > the public. > > That said, not having to mess with a local_manifest.xml for each device > variation is a good thing. Please push your changes upstream if at all > possible. > > -Will
Thanks all for your views. Freescale really needs to build a public repo firstly, actually we're making effort on this. Before we can join OHA, I think public repo with local manifest is a good solution. BR Xinyu Chen --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ unsubscribe: [email protected] website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
