NAK: [PATCH 00/27] Add new PowerPC flavor for Freescale e500mc based platforms

[Tim Gardner]

I am declining this pull request for the following:

*) The distro team is strongly encouraged by the engineering director to
focus on our core offerings, e.g., the bits in main that make up our
installation media. To my knowledge this kernel version is not targeted
to be part of an officially supported installation. I have endeavored to
drop superfluous flavours for each of the past several development cycles.

*) A number of these patches touch architecture independent code and, as
such, require a more thorough upstream review. Per policy these patches
should be received via stable updates, or be incorporated in a
subsequent kernel release.

I am personally leery of carrying yet another flavour because I don't
have a good feel for the size of the community. Is the e500mc widely and
cheaply available to developers ? We are also resource constrained on
powerpc buildd and porter performance.

I suggest that you upload this kernel to universe for the time being.
There are branch templates that you can use such as the ti-omap4 flavour
(git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-quantal.git ti-omap4), or the
lowlatency kernel
(git://kernel.ubuntu.com/themuso/ubuntu-precise-lowlatency.git).
Maintenance should be no more complicated then rebasing against the
master repository. There are scripts in the Lucid and Precise LTS
backport branches that you could adapt to fully automate the process

If Freescale and the community demonstrate sufficient commitment over
the next few releases, then perhaps we can consider incorporating this
flavour into the main kernel repository before 14.04 is released.

rtg
-- 
Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com