On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 at 12:05:48 PM, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Wed, 2014-02-12 at 11:44 +0100, Marek Vasut wrote: > > On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 at 11:29:36 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > What I've thought of doing is creating a rebasing git branch based on > > > the current mainline base used in the sunxi branch. > > > > The current u-boot-sunxi is completely un-rebasable as far as I can tell. > > What I meant was to create a completely fresh branch based on mainline > u-boot. It should use the same base revision as the latest upstream > version merged into the sunxi branch, to facilitate diffing, but > otherwise has basically nothing to do with it so far as git history goes > (other than taking care about crediting the right people). > > > Like discussed with Hans, I'd suggest you submit a bare minimal machine > > upstream so there's some starting point and add the remaining bits later > > on. > > Right, that was what I was suggesting too, and in fact what I've made a > start on doing. > > > You might also end up re-engineering the fundamentals of the sunxi > > > > port, which seem to be rotting a little (all those custom linker > > scripts, custom base addresses that might be unified, weird position > > of the stack etc). > > Sure, I think it is inevitable that upstream review will result in some, > possibly even major, changes.
OK, thanks. Best regards, Marek Vasut -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
