Re: Bug#703209: linux: Please Add multiplatform flavour to armhf
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> wrote:
> 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.
Thank you for following this up.
I want to explain to me what you wrote.
>
>> 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.
me too.
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