Hi Lukasz,
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I'd like to share with the u-boot mailing list the proposal of my talk for u-boot's Mini summit in the ELCE2014.
Thanks a lot for the proposal.
__Mainline u-boot for Tizen 3.0 - “war story”__
Abstract:
Utilization of u-boot bootloader at Samsung's Linux powered platforms has a long history. For Tizen 3.0 the reference devices for mobile profile (RD_PQ and Odroid U3/X2) are due to run with u-boot developed with open source philosophy applied. It means that the code was developed, reviewed and tested first in the open source and then reused in Tizen.
Introduced changes to mainline code were minimal and only necessary for assuring backward compatibility. In his presentation Lukasz will briefly cover history and future plans of u-boot development for Tizen (as e.g. ongoing work on single binary for Odroid U3 and M0), explain key aspects of persuading community to accept solutions tunned for mobile devices, present remarkable u-boot's “war stories” and give a handful of tips for successful cooperation with community.
I would need around 25 minutes for talk and 5 more for discussion.
I really appreciate such a "war story" talk. Actually I tried nudging a lot of people to do such a thing but until now without any success - so I'm all the more happy to see it finally appear. I guess it will be very instructive to share such inside experience on how to integrate a decentralized open source component in a professional work flow. Such procedures have materialized around the Linux kernel, but the situation is not so clear in the bootloader area that has traditionally seen a lot of "fire and forget" strategies.
As I did not see any negative reaction to that talk, I'd say the talk is accepted.
Best wishes Detlev