> On Tuesday 18 March 2008, Ulf Samuelsson wrote: >> > Here a short announcement about a change in the U-Boot ARM custodianship: >> > >> > Since the ARM platform is so broad and has multiple vendor >> > specific "sub-architectures" it seemed necessary to add new U-Boot >> > custodian branches for those architectures. Fortunately we had some >> > volunteers. Here the list: >> > >> > u-boot-at91 (Atmel ARM) Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard >> > u-boot-pxa (XScale) Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard >> > u-boot-s3c24xx (Samsung ARM) Harald Welte >> > >> > Again, thanks a lot to the (new) custodians. Your help is really >> > appreciated. >> >> Would it not be better if the Atmel ARM was handled by the Atmel AT91 >> Product line > > Could be, I really don't know. I don't remember seeing Atmel ARM patches > posted or reviewed by other Atmel than yourself.
They were sent in 3-4 years ago. Since there were no response, they lost interest, and have not tried since then. They are maintaining a separate U-Boot source package. > > So for the time being, we gladly accept that Jean-Christophe volunteered to > take over this custodianship. From my point of view, he is doing a very good > job with his other U-Boot activities. So I expect that the AT91 support could > be handled better from now on. Have no criticism against Jean-Christophe, but I think that support for new chips may be available earlier with the AT91 team. > > But again, we are open for other suggestions here too. If you think someone > at > Atmel is better suited to do this job, then please let us know. I will not have the time to maintain, that is for sure. I think that the issue needs to be raised with the AT91 team, but it might be that the AT91 team decides that they rather work closely with Jean-Christophe. Andrew Victor is doing a good job maintaining the AT91 Linux port so there is a precedent for this already. > > BTW: If somebody else feels suited to take over some open custodianships > (PCI, > RTC, HWMON come to my mind right now), please let us know too. :) > Thanks. > > Best regards, > Stefan Best Regards Ulf Samuelsson ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ U-Boot-Users mailing list U-Boot-Users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/u-boot-users
