Hi, * Raphael Assenat <raph@xxxxxx> [120712 14:28]: > Hello, > > We have designed a board based on the AM3505 to use in one of our products, > an unattended payment terminal. I am wondering if it would be meaningful > to clean up and submit our patches to add support for our board in the > mainline. > > As this board is neither a development/evm platform nor a mass produced > consumer product, not many users, if ever, will want to customize > their kernel. Therefore I am not sure what the advantages for the > community at large would be... Besides our code serving as yet another > board file example. > > What is the current maintainer position regarding new board support files? > Were submissions from people in the same situation ever merged? Do you think > it worth the effort to clean up and submit our board support files? We're moving towards device tree based booting and the board-*.c files will be going away except for board-generic.c. No new board-*.c files will be merged. I've been carrying some board-*.c files in the testing-board branch, but we're now at a point where the devicetree based booting should work for simple cases. Some parts are of course still missing. So I suggest you just provide a new .dts file for your board. Might be worth posting the board-*.c file anyways so people can use that if they want to. Regards, Tony -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
