Dear Robin Getz,
In message 200907192355.41601.rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org you wrote:
People responsible for the archicture/CPU core may set things up, and not want anyone to change things - on any SoC or Board.
People responsible for SoC developments should be able to take what the arch provider delivers, write a few device drivers, make some specific choices that anyone who implements that SoC is going to have to live with.
People responsible for Board porting, should be able to take what the SoC provider delivers, customise things for their platform, and move on.
Then there are end users - which must live with the choices that all three have made, until they get their own hardware back, or in the case where the hardware is a module - just change some non-hardware related options.
So maybe it is core, chip, PCB, and user.
In some cases - all 4 categories are the same person - in many cases they are not.
You seem to live on a different planet than me.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk