On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 16:25, Tim Bird wrote: > On 05/05/2011 12:27 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 15:12, Tim Bird wrote: >>> As for in-tree-ness - I thought the most recent message was to stay >>> out of tree until the refactoring was over. ;-) >> >> to be fair, does this have any relevance whatsoever to NEC parts ? >> istm that the hindrance here is NEC doing any actual work for >> mainline. Âeven if there was no refactoring, i find it hard to believe >> that an NEC port would be posted. Âif it were actually something that >> could happen, then they should already be posting patches for *basic* >> review to get the pieces unrelated to the refactoring worked out. >> there's no reason this has to be done serially. > > Well, OK. ÂI just don't want to lob bombs at NEC and then > have some poor soul over there get immediately rebuffed, due to > basic ARM churn. ÂMaybe not having naviengine support upstream > is my fault, but Sony doesn't make the CPU, so it doesn't seem > like it should be my job to mainline the chip support. ÂAbout > the only thing I have at my disposal is pressure not to buy > the chip (but this is harder to exercise than one might think.) i dont have any vested interest either way wrt NEC or ARM/XIP. i was just trying to highlight what i saw as a red herring. i think the axiom "post early & post often" holds just as true here. -mike -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
