Re: Is the hisilicon tree maintained ?

From: Wei Xu
Date: Fri Feb 02 2018 - 08:49:41 EST


Hi Daniel,

On 2018/2/2 13:34, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> On 02/02/2018 13:10, Wei Xu wrote:
>> Hi Daniel,
>>
>> On 2018/2/2 12:05, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>>> On 02/02/2018 12:42, Wei Xu wrote:
>>>> Hi Daniel,
>>>>
>>>> On 2018/2/2 6:59, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Wei Xu,
>>>>>
>>>>> I found in the MAINTAINERS file the hisilicon tree is at:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://github.com/hisilicon/linux-hisi
>>>>>
>>>>> But, (except I missed it) I didn't find any update since Nov, 2017.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is that tree maintained ?
>>>>
>>>> Yes. It is still maintained.
>>>> You can find update from other branches or the tags like next/dt64.
>>>> I will update the master when every rc1 is released.
>>>
>>> Is there a development branch for something else than the DT ?
>>
>> Sorry, no developing branch is there.
>> But we will create one if needed like the topic-acpi-mbigen branch.
>> And most of development branches are kept in another git repo.
>
> What is the purpose of this tree? Why not rely on arm-soc?

Currently it is mainly a place to pick up the patches
and save the pull request.

Best Regards,
Wei

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