Policy question: criteria for submission to mainline for a new SoC?

Jason McMullan jason.mcmullan at netronome.com
Mon Aug 23 12:39:03 EDT 2010


On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Marek Vasut <marek.vasut at gmail.com> wrote:
> Most of the board init routines should be in Linux actually. It shouldn't depend
> on bootloader. Also, you might want to use uboot for linux instead of custom
> bootloader.

As much as I would like to, several of our board initialization
routines (specifically DDR3, TCAM, and RXAUI) are under NDA
by our suppliers, and can't be included in U-Boot.

> Why not just sticking the sources on the website somewhere ?

We're working on that.


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Jason S. McMullan
Netronome Systems, Inc.



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