Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754888Ab3FGJR7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jun 2013 05:17:59 -0400 Received: from mail-qa0-f42.google.com ([209.85.216.42]:46015 "EHLO mail-qa0-f42.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752860Ab3FGJR5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jun 2013 05:17:57 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <51AFA6DD.3000202@wwwdotorg.org> <1370469574.18839.33.camel@localhost> <1370475609.20454.44.camel@localhost> From: Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 17:17:35 +0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1)) To: Olof Johansson Cc: "jonsmirl@gmail.com" , devicetree-discuss , "luke.leighton" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , debian-arm , Linux on small ARM machines , ARM Linux Mailing List , debian-kernel Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1952 Lines: 45 2013/6/7 Olof Johansson : > On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 8:13 AM, jonsmirl@gmail.com wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 7:54 PM, luke.leighton wrote: >>> augh. ok. solutions. what are the solutions here? >> >> Luke if you really want to fix this a good solution is to have >> Allwinner join Linaro and provide an engineer to the Linaro effort. >> That engineer will get educated on the right way to do kernel >> development and he can pass that knowledge back to Allwinner each day >> as he learns it. > > There's no need for anybody to join Linaro to contribute upstream. > That's a crazy notion. i do agree. i don't think there is any direct relationship between linaro and upstream. otherwise, we will be in pain as we are not linaro member too. > > Listen, Allwinner isn't working in a vacuum, believe it or not. I've > talked to them, so has Arnd and other people working on ARM, including > Maxime Ripard, who's been reimplementing upstream support for their > platform. Everybody is interested in the right things happening, it's > just a matter of figuring out how to do it. The right people are > already talking. > >> Allwinner has expressed interest in the past in joining Linaro but the >> price was too high. I believe there are cheaper options now for >> joining. The benefits Allwinner receives from joining will far exceed >> the cost of joining. The net result will likely be a reduction in the >> amount they need to spend on in-house development since they will >> learn how to better leverage other developer's work. > > Uh, you're listing the benefits of doing upstream work, not of joining Linaro. > > > -Olof thanks barry -- 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/