On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 10:16:25PM +0100, Franck Jullien wrote: > As I told you when we met, the tiny SPI core is a good example. > This core as a driver in the Linux mainline (spi-oc-tiny.c). However, > on the opencores website, it doesn't have a OCCP stamp. This > should not be possible....Plus, the official maintainer should be > opencores because the core has to remain very stable. Any change > in the core should be acked by opencores gurus and checked against > the linux driver. >
Although I agree with most of the other things you brought up, this example is good. Who are those opencores gurus that should maintain it? I for ones have never used that core and probably never will, so I don't really care much about it. It happens to have a driver in Linux mainline since the creator of the core submitted a driver that he had written. If that guy isn't actively maintaining that project anymore, and you want to step up and give it some love, that's great. If he's not interested in being the maintainer anymore, then he'll probably gracefully handover the maintainership to you, just like it would happen in any other open source project. (And that's how I reluctantly became the maintainer of the AC97 project) Stefan _______________________________________________ OpenRISC mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openrisc.net/listinfo/openrisc
