Openbmc u-boot trees (was Re: u-boot:rsa adds rsa3072 algorithm)

[Jamin Lin]

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-----Original Message-----
From: Joel Stanley <joel at jms.id.au> 
Sent: Monday, February 7, 2022 2:03 PM
To: Jamin Lin <jamin_lin at aspeedtech.com>
Cc: openbmc at lists.ozlabs.org; Troy Lee <troy_lee at aspeedtech.com>; Steven Lee <steven_lee at aspeedtech.com>; Andrew Jeffery <andrew at aj.id.au>
Subject: Openbmc u-boot trees (was Re: u-boot:rsa adds rsa3072 algorithm)

Hi Jamin,

On Mon, 7 Feb 2022 at 02:26, Jamin Lin <jamin_lin at aspeedtech.com> wrote:
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> Hi Joel and OpenBMC team,
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> This patch was applied to u-boot/master, 
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/uboot/patch/20220119082323.4567-2-
> jamin_lin at aspeedtech.com/
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> Commit   2a4b0d5890deb0c973f8db7bb03adad96aff1050
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> https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/commit/2a4b0d5890deb0c973f8db7bb03ada
> d96aff1050
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> Could you please help to backport the patch to the openbmc/u-boot tree?

Sure, I can do that.

I'd like to start a discussion about the u-boot trees and how we maintain them. Currently we have:

 - upstream; partial 2600 support
 - aspeed-master-v2019.04, SDK tree maintained by ASPEED
 - v2019.04-aspeed-openbmc, openbmc maintained by Joel. Based on SDK tree

In the past I was putting code in the openbmc tree so we could use it for bringup, and trying to send pull requests to the SDK tree.

Now you're sending patches upstream (excellent!) and sending me requests to merge into the openbmc tree.

I would like to see fewer trees.

In the short term, one option is we put all of the openbmc patches in the SDK, and continue using that for openbmc. Would this work for aspeed?

In the medium term, we should start using upstream releases. There may still be some downstream code (as we have for Linux in our dev branches), but this will go to zero over time.

Please let me know your thoughts.

Cheers,

Joel