Re: Add new armhf flavor armada370xp
Hi,
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Arnaud Patard <arnaud.patard@rtp-net.org> wrote:
> Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> writes:
>
>> On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 09:27:42AM +0200, Riku Voipio wrote:
>>>On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 06:09:11AM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 11:22:23PM +0000, peter green wrote:
>>>> >>Each flavor of armel and armhf should have the same function, too.
>>>> >IMO if you think you can support all armada series devices that are
>>>> >likely to run debian armhf from one kernel flavour then you should
>>>> >just call the flavour "armada" (similar to the way the flavour that
>>>> >covers beagle/panda/etc is just called "omap")
>>>
>>>> Definitely, yes. Hopefully in the longer term we'll be able to run
>>>> more of the ARMv7+ machines with single kernels using DT, but that's
>>>> not going to happen overnight.
>>>
>>>I hope we could be more ambitious and enter the single zImage /
>>>multiplatform setup early. We could start by simply calling the
>>>armada370 / armadaxp flavour "multiplatform". And then any new
>>>architectures would only be added by including them to multiplatform
>>>flavour - and only accepted if adding doesn't break existing platforms
>>>supported by our multiplatform kernel.
>>
>> Good point, yes. Anybody object to that?
>
> I've already started looking at multiplatform for quite some time but
> currently multiplatform support in mainline is near to useless. If I
> ignore all the 'select' omap Kconfig madness, it remains troubles
> like no usb support in theses kernels. The patches for fixing this have
> even been reverted by Gregkh because they were broken. There are other
> more minor issues but this one is more "visible".
>
> Arnaud
I understand that multiplatform has a problem for SoC.
As you have pointed out, I think that these problems are being corrected.
I thought that mvebu (armada) was good selection as SoC in which we
support multiplatform 'first' in Debian.
Best regards,
Nobuhiro
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