From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wolfgang Denk Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 00:37:17 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] u-boot-socfpga repository In-Reply-To: <5413667D.50001@opensource.altera.com> References: <201409110133.20669.marex@denx.de> <20140911120912.6E08.AA925319@jp.panasonic.com> <54112B64.5010104@monstr.eu> <20140911074618.51A09380CA2@gemini.denx.de> <20140911171431.GW25506@bill-the-cat> <54122DE5.1080006@opensource.altera.com> <20140912052527.B0714382307@gemini.denx.de> <54133B22.2090509@opensource.altera.com> <54136030.3030200@ovro.caltech.edu> <5413667D.50001@opensource.altera.com> Message-ID: <20140912223717.CF9A138222C@gemini.denx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Dear Dinh, In message <5413667D.50001@opensource.altera.com> you wrote: > > Wolfgang's advice is valuable and noted. However, it is in Altera's > best interest that we have 1 central gathering point for all our > opensource software support. Full agreement here. But I would like to point out that your point of view appears to be biased: U-Boot mainline is a community project, and the community is very much vendor-independent. So the question we're trying to solve here is not what is optimal for Altera, but what is optimal for the community. As is, current mainline U-Boot is not really working well on most SoCFPGA systems. Progress is dissatisfactory slow. Marek volunteers to help out now, and you promise to chime in very soon. I see no conflict here. Let us create the u-boot-socfpga repository we need in any case, and agree with Marek as custodian until Vince has gathered enough reputation to relieve Marek. I talked to him - he is not clinging to that job, he just sees the need to get the current problems solved now, not in some uncertain future. Please try to understand that this is totally unrelated to what you do at u-boot-socfpga-next - it does not influence your work there in any way. Ideally, your u-boot-socfpga-next and the mainline u-boot-socfpga repositories would be just redundant copies. On the other hand, setting up u-boot-socfpga now allows the community to make some progress until you (rsp. Vince) start populating u-boot-socfpga-next and gather experience working with the community. So it is actually in both the community's and Altera's best interest to get a mainline u-boot-socfpga set up without further delay. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd at denx.de Well, the way I see it, logic is only a way of being ignorant by num- bers. - Terry Pratchett, _Small Gods_