Re: [microblaze-uclinux] Change to list policy

[Michal Simek <michal.simek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-microblaze-uclinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-microblaze-uclinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
>> Behalf Of John Williams
>> Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 7:05 PM
>> To: microblaze-uclinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: [microblaze-uclinux] Change to list policy
>>
>> Hi Antoine,
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:48 AM, Antoine Calando <acalando@xxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>
>>>> For those who missed it, MicroBlaze got merged into Linus's
> 2.6.30-rc2
>>>> tree yesterday!  This is big news, and a big thanks to Michal for
> the
>>>> great work he did on LKML to get it sheparded in, and thanks also
> to
>>>> Xilinx who supported us to make this happen.
>>> Can you please provide more details on this merge:
>>>
>>> With which base was merged the official kernel? The one from
> Petalogix SVN,
>>> or may be from Xilinx git? A mix of both? BTW what was the
> differences
>>> between these two inital branches? The Xilinx version seems much
> more recent,
>>> but is it as well maintained as the Petalogix one?
>> Hmm, where to start.  About 12 months ago, Michal took the PetaLogix
>> 2.6.20 SVN kernel, and reved it up to 2.6.27 (At the time), plus a
>> bunch of work replacing the older Kconfig.auto with Device Tree
>> architecture, as used in PowerPC arch.
>>
>> We had an attempt at mainline push then, but weren't adequately
>> resourced to really give it the push it needed, so we backed away.
>>
>> So, the tree that is merged has of course roots from our 2.6.20 tree,
>> but has had a lot of cleanup, and uses device trees as the main
>> platform configuration technology.
>>
>> It's relation to git.xilinx.com MicroBlaze support is less clear, and
>> indeed now that MicroBlaze is merged upstream, git.xilinx.com will
>> start to reflect that fact, plus any local patches, drivers etc added
>> by Xilinx.
> 
> Around the same time Michal did the device tree conversion for
> Microblaze
> I also ended up doing it somewhat independently.
> The code went up to the git server, but we had to solve some other
> problems
> first (like generating the device trees, for instance) before going to
> mainline.

BTW: What about to write full history log for Microblaze and things related with it?

Michal

> Once 2.6.30 comes out, git.xilinx.com will be updated to reflect
> mainline, which
> supersedes everything that is at git.xilinx.com...
> 
> The goal of git.xilinx.com is that, as drivers get converted to a form
> that can be
> submitted to mainline, that will happen and the amount of code that diff
> with mainline will
> be reduced, if not eliminated.  Now that microblaze is mainline, we can
> start this process in
> earnest... :)
> 
> Steve
> 
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