On Sat, 2014-05-17 at 10:43 +0300, Siarhei Siamashka wrote:
> On Fri, 16 May 2014 21:40:07 +0100
> Ian Campbell <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2014-05-16 at 23:11 +0300, Siarhei Siamashka wrote:
> > > > I think this change is an improvement, but if we do this, we also
> > > > need to upstream it. Ian what is your take on this? IOW are you
> > > > ok with my applying this to the u-boot-sunxi git repo ?
> > 
> > While things aren't yet upstream I'm in two minds.
> > 
> > Once it does go upstream I think it would pay to be quite strict about
> > accepting stuff into u-boot-sunxi.git. There's not much point going to
> > all the effort upstreaming things if it is just allowed to diverge
> > again, and I don't really want to be forever playing catch up.
> 
> As I see it, the 'sunxi' branch at u-boot-sunxi.git is good for
> nothing. It does not even try to be in a workable state for the
> end users (the broken GMAC is telling a lot). And at the same
> time its usefulness for the upstreaming efforts is also not
> very clear, thanks to the complicated merge history and the
> applied/adjusted/reverted patches.
> 
> Do we have a branch, which is just the upstream u-boot with a
> minimal sunxi patch set applied on top of it?

There is a URL in the introductory email to each upstreaming series.
Essentially it is sunxi-mainlining-vN of
https://gitorious.org/ijc/u-boot/

> 
> > > Well, I'm also considering that it might be a good idea to just wait
> > > until the basic sunxi support lands upstream. And then directly
> > > submit the dram patches there. No need to bother you and Ian
> > > unnecessarily.
> > 
> > That would certainly make life easier for everyone I think.
> 
> Please note that here I'm optimistically assuming that the sunxi patch
> set (submitted during the merge window, which has just ended) still
> somehow makes it into upstream u-boot 2014.07.

AIUI it should be going in in a matter of weeks not months.

>  If this is not the
> case, then everything is a little bit more complicated.

Quite.

Ian.


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