Re: Feedback from the community -> ARM

[Peter Ehlert <peter@sdi-baja.com>]

On 6/10/21 7:43 AM, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hello,
>
> next week there is a (virtual) meeting at ARM who invited some people 
> involved in Linux on ARM CPUs. One of the topics there is to tell them 
> Debian's needs and pain points.
where and how can I attend that meeting?
> My current list (based on own experience and asking for feedback in 
> #debian-arm) currently has:
>
>  - Fragmentation
>    - Vendor kernels vs. mainline
>      This got better in the past is my subjective impression, but it
>      still hurts. Device tree made this a tad simpler, but it's not
>      unusual to have vendor specific bindings.
>    - early boot code
>      U-Boot (or general: bootloader) is device specific and more often
>      than not there is only a Vendor variant available.
>      Also today there are more relevant components: ATF, UEFI/EDK2
>    Vendors care at different intensities (and profit from external
>    developers) Would Arm Base System Architecture (BSA) help? (This is
>    only for AArch64 though, arm32 still relevant for us.)
>  - relevant SoC/SBC vendors:
>    - Allwinner
>    - Broadcom / RaspberryPi Foundation
>    - Marvell
>    - NXP
>    - Odroid
>    - Rockchip
>    - some more for sure (which?)
>  - Graphics
>    Similar problematic, vendor blobs vs. OSS
>
> Is there anything on your mind that is missing above and that you'd 
> like to be shared with ARM? Feel free to reply here or discuss in 
> #debian-arm. (I'm ukleinek there.)
>
> Best regards
> Uwe