From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16157947 for ; Mon, 12 May 2014 14:17:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vps0.lunn.ch (vps0.lunn.ch [178.209.37.122]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B4A3D2024E for ; Mon, 12 May 2014 14:17:43 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 15:58:36 +0200 From: Andrew Lunn To: Wolfram Sang Message-ID: <20140512135836.GD3378@lunn.ch> References: <20140511053037.GQ12708@titan.lakedaemon.net> <536FBA0E.5090301@gmail.com> <20140511190752.GC2527@linux.com> <20140511192630.GA14115@kroah.com> <20140511195011.GD2527@linux.com> <536FDE91.3050708@xs4all.nl> <20140512083825.GB2665@katana> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140512083825.GB2665@katana> Cc: Jason Cooper , ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] hobbyist recruiting List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , > Agree. That is why I point people to OpenWRT which has tons of hardware > support which is not mainline. And old routers can quite easily be > obtained. Yet, one must be willing enough to get support of a mostly > outdated HW into the kernel, just for the fun of it. I've had some success contacting the authors of kirkwood SoC based board ports that are in OpenWRT and asking them to contribute there patches to mainline. It has not been too much effort helping them clean up the contribution to get the code in mainline. Nobody has made the transition to a regular contributer, but they do tend to help with testing when patches affect there board and you ask for tests. arch/arm/boot/dts$ ls -1 *.dts | cut -f 1 -d - | sort | uniq -c| sort -rn 57 kirkwood 33 omap3 19 imx6q 18 imx28 14 armada 12 imx6dl 10 tegra20 9 ste 9 imx53 7 sun4i 7 omap4 6 am335x 5 imx27 With the usual declaimer of lies, damn lies, and statistics, it looks like we are doing something right. And kirkwood is mostly hobbyist maintained. Andrew