On 23:57 Fri 04 Sep , Wolfgang Denk wrote:
Hello everybody,
ARM has always been one of the architectures that generated a big number of different processors and SoCs, but recently the activitiy in this area is literally exploding. This is partially due to the fact that ARM is currently used in many designs, so many new ARM based processors and SoCs and even more new ARM boards show up, but another and at least as important change is that some silicon and board vendors have started to actively pushing their products into the U-Boot (and Linux) mainline source trees (and *welcome* they all are!).
It has become evident that this growing complexity has become way too massive to be shouldered by a single custodian, even a very active one like Jean-Christophe.
I think we have no other choice but to add more manpower to this task, i. e. split the ARM respository and distribute the workload across a few more custodians.
Unline with the Power architecture, where the split can be easily defined by processor lines, with ARM it seems more logical to me to differentiate by silicon vendors.
After much thinking I therefor suggest to implement the following change for the ARM architecture:
I think this will be better
master ARM repository : Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard
Freescale (i.MX) Magnus Lilja? Or are there any volunteers at Freescale?
Marvell Prafulla Wadaskar
Samsung (s3c, s5pc): Are there any volunteers at Samsung?
Texas Instruments (OMAP): Tom Rix
Best Regards, J.