On Tue, Jul 13, 2010, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
I'm wondering if we can split the merged ARM kernel tree from the Ubuntu patches. I'm not normally building ubuntu packages when trying out kernels, and a lot of the stuff in the ubuntu tree is not heading for mainline inclusion any time soon.
Obviously we need the ubuntu+linaro tree as well, especially to build the packages, but I'm personally more interested in the linaro (minus ubuntu) patches that are headed upstream.
I'm +1 on this; it's something which has bugged me for a while.
We need a version of the tree with the Ubuntu stuff merged, as to prepare Ubuntu packages, but our official main arm_next doesn't need to carry the non-upstream Ubuntu bits. (Carrying the Ubuntu bits which are going upstream soon is useful though.)
It's an extra burden, but we want arm_next.git to be upstreamish. I think John Rigby and Nicolas should see how to best handle the Ubuntu bits, but our tree should look like an official upstream linux tree with additional good stuff and sugar on top. :-)