[meta-ti] Which machine type to use for DaVinci DM6446 and TI816x?

[Denys Dmytriyenko]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 09:25:37AM -0400, Brian Hutchinson wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Maupin, Chase <chase.maupin at ti.com> wrote:
> 
> > [CEM] Generally not too hard.  You can often start with the old arago
> > machine and move that in with some cleanup.  Then you will need to
> > move/create the bootloader and kernel recipes as well, again looking for
> > cleanup.  That should give you a basic working system.  The main issue is
> > that someone needs to be signed up to keep those recipes working and up to
> > date.  That is what is missing in most cases is a maitainer.****
> 
> Thanks Chase,  I kind of figured it was a (people) bandwidth problem.  At
> the moment I'm using a custom board based on the ti816x so I don't need
> kernel or u-boot (already have those working for the board and since the
> kernel for this platform was never mainlined, it doesn't have much churn)
> but simply need packages built using all the Cortex-A8 flags.  I guess I
> could be lazy and just build for Beagleboard or something since the ABI's
> would be the same but I thought I would ask how to go about it the right
> way.  Also, there have been several revs of silicon for that part and I'm
> about to acquire the most up-to-date EVM so I could add machine support for
> that.
> 
> I'll check out that commit you mentioned and start coming up to speed on
> what is involved.

Brian,

So, are you willing to become a maintainer for that platform? I've heard from 
several other people in the community before, who expressed interest, but 
never came back with the final decision yet... Let me know what you decide. 
Thanks.

-- 
Denys