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Re: Official support Odroid hardware and other ARM development boards.



Thanks Paul,

On 02/26/2014 08:19 PM, Paul Wise wrote:
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Eric Nelson wrote:

Linaro is doing some really nice work, coordinating the activities
of the various ARM licensees in the kernel space, but I think they're
only upstreaming the kernel and Android bits.

Indeed, that would be the most important part.

Can anyone on this list comment on what the process is for
addition into this list (which looks pretty dated)?

I think the plan is to go with device-tree (or UEFI/ACPI etc) and
multiplatform Linux kernels rather than hardware-specific ones, which
is what the list you linked to is about.

At a guess:

Upstream everything.

We're doing this for our boards, and the Freescale teams
and many others are very active getting all of the kernel
drivers upstream.

It is possible to run very functional SABRE Lite straight
from kernel.org, and this will improve dramatically in the
next couple of kernel releases.


Package etna_viv and get it sponsored.

http://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers


Thanks.

Get the relevant config options enabled in linux-image-armmp,
u-boot/grub by reporting bugs against these packages.

Send patches for the flash-kernel and installation-guide source packages.

http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=d-i/flash-kernel.git
http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/d-i/trunk/manual/

Talk to the Debian installer team about how images are built and how
to add support for new hardware.

https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller
https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/

Test the results.

http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/armhf/daily/
http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/armel/daily/
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/armhf/
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/armel/

Please note we're freezing for the next Debian release in November:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/10/msg00004.html

Again. Thanks very much for the information.


PS: I'm subscribed, no need to CC.

Ok. I have "Reply-all" in muscle memory.

Regards,

Eric


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