Re: Bug#703209: linux: Please Add multiplatform flavour to armhf
On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 08:44 +0100, Arnaud Patard wrote:
> I already commented some days ago on debian-arm that currently
> multiplatform support must wait. It is useless as usb support is
> _broken_ on multiplatform. Hopefully, Linaro devs seem back to work
> and looks like we may have a patch merged soon. Until then, doing more
> is near to a waste of time.
I don't think making a start on a MP flavour is a waste of time at all.
We are talking about packages in trunk (currently == experimental)
rather than Sid/Wheezy. There's no possibility of us releasing anything
with 3.8 but in the meantime adding the multiplatform flavour allows us
to start laying the packaging ground work, finding bugs in the MP stuff
and generally kicking the tyres etc. It's also an obvious step in the
right direction. As you say the known issues, like the USB think, will
be fixed upstream sooner rather than later.
Since we are currently not yet talking about removing existing flavours
I'm not sure there are any downsides to just doing it.
> And about the patch in this bug, it fails to be really
> multiplatform. During my tests on 3.8, I could already enable platforms
> like MVEBU, HIGHBANK, BCM, MXC and you can enable OMAP too with 2-3
> backports. Once done, it needs to be tested on real platforms as it
> would probably allow to detect some more bugs. 3.9 may be better.
This patch is a start though and doesn't preclude adding those other
platforms either straight away or when 3.9 comes around as we like.
Having the flavour would also enable testing on real platforms so that
isn't a reason to wait IMHO.
> On the long term, we'll have also to consider if we should keep
> omap/mx5/vexpress or not. If we remove them, we should make sure that
> the transition will work nicely.
Ack.
Ian.
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