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

[Mark Brown]

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 12:39:03PM -0400, Jason McMullan wrote:
> 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.

If you're doing this please make sure you provide a method for customers
to customise the machine type (and get the rest of the boot protocol
right).