<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div></div><div>We have two options to pick up changes from Aspeed and upstream.</div><div>1. Be closer to Aspeed temporary:<br></div><div> Rebase OpenBMC u-boot changes to aspeed-master-v2019.04, with CIT ( daily or at least weekly). After the aspeed-master-v2019.04 activity slowed down, which means the u-boot for AST2600 from Aspeed SDK is getting stable, we start the effort to upstream the changes.</div><div> </div><div>2. Be closer to upstream:</div><div> OpenBMC takes yocto u-boot branch, submit to OpenBMC u-boot branch, <br></div><div>will target upstream immediately.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br> </div><div><div><div><div class="gmail_quote">option-1: get changes from Aspeed is easy, but in this case we need some important feature / patch from upstream, we need back ports. <br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">option-2: get changes from Aspeed will need more effort than just a simple cherry pick. <br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Considering Aspeed is still developing both the AST2600 chip and SDK, I would like to vote for option-1, as now, there will be much more changes needed from Aspeed instead of from upstream. <br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">BRs</div><div class="gmail_quote">Dan Zhang<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: Michael Richardson <<a href="mailto:mcr@sandelman.ca" target="_blank">mcr@sandelman.ca</a>><br>To: Joel Stanley <<a href="mailto:joel@jms.id.au" target="_blank">joel@jms.id.au</a>>, OpenBMC Maillist <<a href="mailto:openbmc@lists.ozlabs.org" target="_blank">openbmc@lists.ozlabs.org</a>>, Eddie James <<a href="mailto:eajames@linux.ibm.com" target="_blank">eajames@linux.ibm.com</a>><br>Cc: <br>Bcc: <br>Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2020 14:02:29 -0400<br>Subject: Re: u-boot branches<br><br>
Joel Stanley <<a href="mailto:joel@jms.id.au" target="_blank">joel@jms.id.au</a>> wrote:<br>
> I've chosen to rebase the openbmc changes on top of their branch. The<br>
> old branch is still accessible at archive/v2019.04-aspeed-openbmc-1.<br>
> The bitbake recipe will continue to work as it uses the nobranch=1<br>
> flag, and specifies the version based on the SHA.<br>
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> The new branch contains their aspeed-master-v2019.04 tree as of today,<br>
> with the OpenBMC changes applied on top.<br>
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Is this any closer to upstream u-boot?<br>
Or is it diverging further?<br>
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