Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752777Ab3FGISz (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jun 2013 04:18:55 -0400 Received: from mail.free-electrons.com ([94.23.35.102]:47186 "EHLO mail.free-electrons.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752105Ab3FGISv (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jun 2013 04:18:51 -0400 Message-ID: <51B19769.4060706@free-electrons.com> Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:18:49 +0200 From: Alexandre Belloni Organization: Free Electrons User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130510 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "luke.leighton" CC: Linux on small ARM machines , debian-arm@lists.debian.org, devicetree-discuss , Linux Kernel Mailing List , ARM Linux Mailing List , debian-kernel@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1)) References: <51AFA6DD.3000202@wwwdotorg.org> <1370469574.18839.33.camel@localhost> <1370475609.20454.44.camel@localhost> <1370477958.20454.68.camel@localhost> <51B085C6.3000605@gmail.com> <51B19046.5040401@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1356 Lines: 30 On 07/06/2013 10:06, luke.leighton wrote: > On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Vladimir Pantelic wrote: >> luke.leighton wrote: >>> 3 days remaining on the clock. >> >> what catastrophic thing will happen when the time runs out? > no catastrophe, vladimir: all that happens is that an opportunity is > lost, and the result of that is that the situation remains as it is, > with a major soc vendor being divorced from and isolated from the free > software community, who will continue to have to shoulder the > frustrating and isolated burden of responsibility of reworking > "over-the-fence" kernel patches as best they can with the limited > resources that they have. I think the question was: what will be done in 3 days that cannot be undone ? and you didn't answer that. I don't understand why your are still stating that Allwinner will never be able to get code in the mainline after Olof and Maxime told you that they are already working, at least discussing with them. -- Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/