From: "Kevin Hilman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> Your work on both of these areas would be much
> appreciated.  Please keep
> the list updated on your progress as I know there are
> others interested
> in SPI.

Ok, I will do it. I'm currently writing a very simple SPI driver, just for
HW testing purposes (bitbanged, totally synchronous, not using the kernel
SPI infrastructure, etc...), then I'll try to port the OMAP SPI driver.

> Hope that helps answer you questions.

You have been clear, thank you! This "two branches" approach is good, but it
has a drawback: the bleeding-edge/experimental tree should be an extension
of the stable tree, i.e. it should include all the functionalities of the
stable tree; in this way, the developers can work on the experimental tree
without loosing functionalities. If for example I'm developing a new
feature, but I also need a functionality that is only present in the stable
branch, I have three possibilities:

1) Port the stable branch functionality to the experimental branch, then
develop my new features on the experimental;
2) Develop my new features on the stable branch;
3) Develop my new features on the experimental branch, then wait for
TI/Montavista to port it to the next stable revision.

To make this kind of decisions, it would be very useful to have an idea of
the "official" time schedules of TI/Montavista (that are currently a little
obscure): are there any extimated release dates for the next minor/major
revision? Which new functionalities will be included? And so on.


P.S. Just out of curiosity: is there actually any major contributor/project
maintainer from TI, or this project is basically carried over completely by
Montavista? I think you are doing a great work at MV, but "officially" TI
should take care of the support for this project (there is a special license
agreement if I understood correctly), therefore I was wondering who was your
"alter ego" at TI. :-)

Cheers, Lorenzo

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