May I ask if a final report will be posted to wiki?

 

Thanks

Yves

 

From: linaro-dev-bounces@lists.linaro.org [mailto:linaro-dev-bounces@lists.linaro.org] On Behalf Of Eric Miao
Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2010 10:12 PM
To: Arnd Bergmann
Cc: Dave Martin; linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org
Subject: Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

 

On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 5:41 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> Following a discussion we had on the Freescale BSP, I started a tree
> at http://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=people/arnd/imx.git;a=summary
> that has the same contents as the tree on the freescale git
> server,

Arnd,

This is very useful analysis. Just to make sure, are you referring to the
linux-2.6-imx.git on

http://opensource.freescale.com/git

And the release of rel_imx_2.6.35_10.10.01?

> but splits them into six branches at this time, though
> the number should increase.
>
> The current split is
>
> * master -- an octopus merge of all the other branches, identical to
>            the BSP
>  381 patches total
>  1286 files changed, 882747 insertions(+), 2932 deletions(-)
>
>
> * drv-mxc -- all drivers in the new drivers/mxc/ directory and new drivers
>            in drivers/char/, as these typically introduce new user ABIs
>            that need very careful review.
>  23 patches
>  189 files changed, 97215 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
>
> * amd-gpu -- a single but huge driver for the GPU. As is normally the
>             case with GPU drivers, we can expect long discussions
>             before it will get considered for mainline
>  4 patches
>  98 files changed, 278321 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
>
> * ath   -- another single driver that is rather large, for the ath6km
>           wifi controller. Split out because it is not owned by freescale.
>  4 patches
>  169 files changed, 94561 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
>
> * other-subsys -- device drivers for existing subsystems. These should
>                  be largely uncontroversial, because they don't introduce
>                  new ABIs and the code looks clean enough for a straight-
>                  forward inclusion through the respective subsystem
>                  maintainers.
>                  Someone still needs to go through these and split them
>                  up by subsystem and separate new drivers from patches
>                  to existing drivers where needed.
>  159 patches
>  445 files changed, 270318 insertions(+), 959 deletions(-)
>
>
> * arch -- everything in the arch/arm, directory, this will go through
>          review on the linux-arm-kernel mailing list.
>          This also needs to be split up further into smaller branches.
>  179 patches
>  378 files changed, 140275 insertions(+), 1991 deletions(-)
>
>
> * external -- patches that look unrelated to the rest, and are probably
>              backported from patches that already went upstream.
>  9 patches
>  7 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
>
>        Arnd
>
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