[meta-freescale] Request to integrate freescale i.mx 3.10.9-1.0.0 alpha release into dora branch of meta-fsl-arm
Eric Nelson
eric.nelson at boundarydevices.com
Wed Oct 2 09:51:23 PDT 2013
Thanks Lauren,
These details are very helpful.
On 10/02/2013 08:41 AM, Post Lauren-RAA013 wrote:
> 3.10.9 will be a GA kernel by early next year.
>
> 3.5.7-alpha2 is just graphics package (fixes beyond 3.0.35-4.1.0
> based on p12 version)
>
And Device-tree support... This clearly made major strides leading to
3.10 and main-line.
> 3.10.9-1.0.0_alpha graphics is still p12 based with additional fixes
> beyond 3.5.7-alpha2 so it should replace 3.5.7-alpha2.
Thanks again. We should be able to examine the changes and
look for ABI-compatibility.
> 3.10.9 also provides full Weston-wayland support.
>
> We understand that 3.0.35-4.1.0 is the current GA current and is preferred
> by those wanting a stable kernel. Just note that the non-kernel
> packages are pretty close to the 3.0.35-4.1.0 release that just
> came out in August so I'm not that worried about stability.
>
Stability hasn't been an issue with our testing of 3.5.7, but
there were significant gaps for things like PCIe, cameras, and
such (at least for us).
> I built with community 3.0.35 and community uboot 2013.10 and
> had no problems with non-kernel 3.10.9 components.
>
> Unfortunately we don't have test resources to test 3.0.35-4.1.0
> with 3.10.9-1.0.0 non-kernel components but my sanity test showed
> it worked. Imx-test requires one update for a header name change
> between the kernels that I've sent to Otavio.
>
We should be able to help here. After all, "community" is a two-way
street, right?
> The 3.10.9 release has all the imx6 boards including imx6 solo
> lite and it went through a full test cycle for our alpha release
> (and will go through more test cycles for beta and ga).
>
> The goal is to get this integrated so that our GA 3.10.9 kernel
> will be on a stable yocto branch.
>
> Our future 3.10.9 beta and GA will be based on the dora branch
> not the master branch.
>
> Our other option is just release on our release layer
> meta-fsl-bsp-release and that is normally our plan but since
> dora is just coming out we asked for an exception for this
> time since our GA will be complete far before Yocto 1.6 is available.
>
Sounds good to me.
Regards,
Eric
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