Re: [U-Boot] U-Boot ARM merge strategy, was: there are non-DM6446 DaVinci chips

2009-04-27 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Jerry Van Baren, In message <49f5b6af.5060...@ge.com> you wrote: > > > Maybe I pout a little more meaning in the words "release candiate". > > After the end of a merge window, there is usually still a long > > backlog of patches that has not been merged, and after that there are > >

Re: [U-Boot] U-Boot ARM merge strategy, was: there are non-DM6446 DaVinci chips

2009-04-27 Thread Jerry Van Baren
Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear David Brownell, > > In message <200904250105.41050.davi...@pacbell.net> you wrote: >> Yes. The issue is needing to guess what's up ... so for >> example, I seem to observe that "merge window closed" must >> not be the same as "first RC is out", which isn't how the >> L

Re: [U-Boot] U-Boot ARM merge strategy, was: there are non-DM6446 DaVinci chips

2009-04-25 Thread Dirk Behme
Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear David Brownell, > > In message <200904250105.41050.davi...@pacbell.net> you wrote: >> Yes. The issue is needing to guess what's up ... so for >> example, I seem to observe that "merge window closed" must >> not be the same as "first RC is out", which isn't how the >> L

Re: [U-Boot] U-Boot ARM merge strategy, was: there are non-DM6446 DaVinci chips

2009-04-25 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear David Brownell, In message <200904250105.41050.davi...@pacbell.net> you wrote: > > Yes. The issue is needing to guess what's up ... so for > example, I seem to observe that "merge window closed" must > not be the same as "first RC is out", which isn't how the > Linux process works. But that

Re: [U-Boot] U-Boot ARM merge strategy, was: there are non-DM6446 DaVinci chips

2009-04-25 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear David Brownell, In message <200904250003.51845.davi...@pacbell.net> you wrote: > > Then I'm curious how that dm9000 EEPROM reading bugfix > landed in net/next ... or is the point that the merge > window for 2009.05 is still open, since RC1 hasn't yet > been tagged? No. End of merge window an

Re: [U-Boot] U-Boot ARM merge strategy, was: there are non-DM6446 DaVinci chips

2009-04-25 Thread David Brownell
On Saturday 25 April 2009, Ben Warren wrote: > > Then I'm curious how that dm9000 EEPROM reading bugfix > > landed in net/next ... or is the point that the merge > > window for 2009.05 is still open, since RC1 hasn't yet > > been tagged? > > > > In this case a pretty good argument could be made th

Re: [U-Boot] U-Boot ARM merge strategy, was: there are non-DM6446 DaVinci chips

2009-04-25 Thread Ben Warren
Hi David, David Brownell wrote: > On Friday 24 April 2009, Ben Warren wrote: > >> My approach is that once the merge window closes, new patches that are not >> bug fixes go into 'next', which is for the release after the current one (in >> this case 07). >> > > Then I'm curious how that d

Re: [U-Boot] U-Boot ARM merge strategy, was: there are non-DM6446 DaVinci chips

2009-04-25 Thread Dirk Behme
David Brownell wrote: > On Friday 24 April 2009, Dirk Behme wrote: >> Btw.: Now that -next exists, I can't find patch linked above in it, >> though :( > > http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot/u-boot-arm.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/next > > shows it ... "respects SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT". Make sure > to lo

Re: [U-Boot] U-Boot ARM merge strategy, was: there are non-DM6446 DaVinci chips

2009-04-25 Thread David Brownell
On Friday 24 April 2009, Ben Warren wrote: > My approach is that once the merge window closes, new patches that are not > bug fixes go into 'next', which is for the release after the current one (in > this case 07). Then I'm curious how that dm9000 EEPROM reading bugfix landed in net/next ... or

Re: [U-Boot] U-Boot ARM merge strategy, was: there are non-DM6446 DaVinci chips

2009-04-24 Thread David Brownell
On Friday 24 April 2009, Dirk Behme wrote: > Btw.: Now that -next exists, I can't find patch linked above in it, > though :( http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot/u-boot-arm.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/next shows it ... "respects SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT". Make sure to look at the "next" branch there; you c

Re: [U-Boot] U-Boot ARM merge strategy, was: there are non-DM6446 DaVinci chips

2009-04-24 Thread Ben Warren
Hi Dirk, On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Dirk Behme wrote: > Dear Jean-Christophe, > > David Brownell wrote: > ... > >>> http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2009-April/050802.html > >> the Patch series and this has been apply in the u-boot-arm/next > > > > I see that branch now exists ... t

[U-Boot] U-Boot ARM merge strategy, was: there are non-DM6446 DaVinci chips

2009-04-24 Thread Dirk Behme
Dear Jean-Christophe, David Brownell wrote: ... >>> http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2009-April/050802.html >> the Patch series and this has been apply in the u-boot-arm/next > > I see that branch now exists ... thanks! :) > Could you clarify the current merge cycle for me, by the wa