On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 01:48:53AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> We've spent the last decade slowly moving away from platform-specific
> to generic multiplatform kernels on ARM (and, to a lesser extent, x86).
> I strongly disagree with adding a new flavour that would be specific
> to one vendor's platform.
This is what I also told them.
> However, if it is possible to create a single flavour that provides
> those sorts of enhancements for multiple cloud platforms, I think that
> would be worthwhile.
Okay. I will explore this variant and see if it provides the benefits
we seek.
> Those are basically the same criteria we normally use, so I don't
> understand your desire to add a featureset.
The people from Microsoft are a bit woried about introducing patches
that break stuff for others except the Azure platform. E.g. support
for non-Azure HyperV targets or hardware that they use in a bit weird
ways. So it makes QA easier by limiting the effects of the patches to a
pretty limited set of system configurations. We should be able to
automatically do tests on those in the future.
Bastian
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