Bug#614593: Please add new armel kernel flavour for the Marvell DB-78x00-BP Development Board
* Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> [2011-02-22 13:56]:
> As mentioned a few months back, we're using several of these machines
> as build daemons for the armel architecture. More details at
> Please could you add a new kernel flavour for these machines?
I still don't believe that this is a good idea because of the small
userbase of people using products based on the MV78xx0 chip. Apart
from one NAS device from Buffalo, I'm not aware of any commercial
products based on this chip that are widely available for purchase.
While the Marvell DB-78x00-BP boards are an important part of our
internal infrastructure, the people running these boards also have the
knowledge to build their own kernels. Adding another kernel flavour
will considerably increase the build time for the whole kernel package
on ARM.
There are several platforms that have a much larger userbase (OMAP,
MX5, S5, etc) and for which I'd rather add a kernel image before I add
one for MV78xx0.
As a compromise, we could add a kernel config file for MV78xx0 to the
Debian kernel package but not build this flavour by Debian. This way,
you'd just need to add one line to the config file and rebuild the
kernel.
Would that help?
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Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/
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