Re: [U-Boot] U-Boot ARM merge strategy, was: there are non-DM6446 DaVinci chips

2009-04-27 Thread Jerry Van Baren
Wolfgang Denk wrote: Dear David Brownell, In message 200904250105.41050.davi...@pacbell.net you wrote: Yes. The issue is needing to guess what's up ... so for example, I seem to observe that merge window closed must not be the same as first RC is out, which isn't how the Linux process

Re: [U-Boot] U-Boot ARM merge strategy, was: there are non-DM6446 DaVinci chips

2009-04-27 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Jerry Van Baren, In message 49f5b6af.5060...@ge.com you wrote: Maybe I pout a little more meaning in the words release candiate. After the end of a merge window, there is usually still a long backlog of patches that has not been merged, and after that there are several

Re: [U-Boot] U-Boot ARM merge strategy, was: there are non-DM6446 DaVinci chips

2009-04-25 Thread Ben Warren
Hi Dirk, On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Dirk Behme dirk.be...@googlemail.comwrote: Dear Jean-Christophe, David Brownell wrote: ... http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2009-April/050802.html the Patch series and this has been apply in the u-boot-arm/next I see that branch now

Re: [U-Boot] U-Boot ARM merge strategy, was: there are non-DM6446 DaVinci chips

2009-04-25 Thread David Brownell
On Friday 24 April 2009, Dirk Behme wrote: Btw.: Now that -next exists, I can't find patch linked above in it, though :( http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot/u-boot-arm.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/next shows it ... respects SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT. Make sure to look at the next branch there; you can

Re: [U-Boot] U-Boot ARM merge strategy, was: there are non-DM6446 DaVinci chips

2009-04-25 Thread David Brownell
On Friday 24 April 2009, Ben Warren wrote: My approach is that once the merge window closes, new patches that are not bug fixes go into 'next', which is for the release after the current one (in this case 07). Then I'm curious how that dm9000 EEPROM reading bugfix landed in net/next ... or is

Re: [U-Boot] U-Boot ARM merge strategy, was: there are non-DM6446 DaVinci chips

2009-04-25 Thread Dirk Behme
David Brownell wrote: On Friday 24 April 2009, Dirk Behme wrote: Btw.: Now that -next exists, I can't find patch linked above in it, though :( http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot/u-boot-arm.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/next shows it ... respects SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT. Make sure to look at the

Re: [U-Boot] U-Boot ARM merge strategy, was: there are non-DM6446 DaVinci chips

2009-04-25 Thread Ben Warren
Hi David, David Brownell wrote: On Friday 24 April 2009, Ben Warren wrote: My approach is that once the merge window closes, new patches that are not bug fixes go into 'next', which is for the release after the current one (in this case 07). Then I'm curious how that dm9000

Re: [U-Boot] U-Boot ARM merge strategy, was: there are non-DM6446 DaVinci chips

2009-04-25 Thread David Brownell
On Saturday 25 April 2009, Ben Warren wrote: Then I'm curious how that dm9000 EEPROM reading bugfix landed in net/next ... or is the point that the merge window for 2009.05 is still open, since RC1 hasn't yet been tagged? In this case a pretty good argument could be made that it's a

Re: [U-Boot] U-Boot ARM merge strategy, was: there are non-DM6446 DaVinci chips

2009-04-25 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear David Brownell, In message 200904250003.51845.davi...@pacbell.net you wrote: Then I'm curious how that dm9000 EEPROM reading bugfix landed in net/next ... or is the point that the merge window for 2009.05 is still open, since RC1 hasn't yet been tagged? No. End of merge window and

Re: [U-Boot] U-Boot ARM merge strategy, was: there are non-DM6446 DaVinci chips

2009-04-25 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear David Brownell, In message 200904250105.41050.davi...@pacbell.net you wrote: Yes. The issue is needing to guess what's up ... so for example, I seem to observe that merge window closed must not be the same as first RC is out, which isn't how the Linux process works. But that's the

[U-Boot] U-Boot ARM merge strategy, was: there are non-DM6446 DaVinci chips

2009-04-24 Thread Dirk Behme
Dear Jean-Christophe, David Brownell wrote: ... http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2009-April/050802.html the Patch series and this has been apply in the u-boot-arm/next I see that branch now exists ... thanks! :) Could you clarify the current merge cycle for me, by the way? I