[linux-yocto] Request to create a new branch for Baytrail BSP

[Bruce Ashfield]

On 13-11-11 11:05 AM, Darren Hart wrote:
> On Sun, 2013-11-10 at 23:53 -0500, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>> On 11/10/2013, 10:43 PM, Chang, Rebecca Swee Fun wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I would like to request the community to create a new branch for
>>> Baytrail BSP in linux-yocto-3.8.
>>>
>>> Baytrail BSP will run on both 32bit and also 64bit configurations.
>>>
>>> We plan to maintain only 1 branch for both 32 bit and 64 bit because the
>>> recipes
>>>
>>> are the same.
>>>
>>> The branch name will be standard/common-pc-64/baytrail
>>>
>>> Branch HEAD on commit 19f949f52599ba7c3f67a5897ac6be14bfcb1200 (Tag v3.8)
>>>
>>> After the community are done with branch creation, I will start upstream
>>> the patches to the branch.
>>
>> I can create the branch at any time, so consider it created. Are you
>> looking for the branch creation to enable your local testing, or something
>> else ?
>
>
> Bruce, do not create this branch. Baytrail will be fully supported
> upstream, we cannot have a branch called "baytrail" containing the
> equivalent of a vendor tree". These branches, if they exist at all,
> should be for specific boards that for some very special cases need
> patches which are not acceptable upstream. This should be approaching
> zero for Intel hardware.
>
> We will work with Rebecca to come up with an acceptable solution.

Ack'd.

Bruce

>
> --
> Darren
>
>
>>
>> The reason I ask, is that if you have patches, you can test and send
>> the series before the branch creation, so there's no need to wait
>> for it to appear in the tree before sending changes.
>>
>> The summary and strategy is useful, so that is appreciated and the
>> right thing to do versus just a large series of changes without any
>> prior notice.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Bruce
>>
>>>
>>> Please do give me some comments if there are any better ways of doing this.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Best Regards
>>>
>>> Rebecca
>>>
>>>
>>>
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