linux-kernel - Re: Is the hisilicon tree maintained ?

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Date:   Fri, 2 Feb 2018 14:34:44 +0100
From:   Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
To:     Wei Xu <xuwei5@...ilicon.com>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Is the hisilicon tree maintained ?

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?



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