Separate source packages have the following features: + One flavour of the kernel is not dependent on others + Parallel builds (in theory, if there are build machines available) + Different people can upload + Different upload schedules + More useful if we are going to carry non-upstream BSPs - More debian packaging overhead to deal with (debian developers might not agree) - Will go against kernel consolidation WG's work since we might end up with one source tree per SoC
Single source package have the following features: + Single source base for all kernels (multiple flavours to start with, but single flavour once Kernel Consolidation WG is done with it) - Long build times since builds are serialized In the end, it depends on what exactly we want to package. Are we pushing all BSPs into a single source tree? Or are we carrying separate branches for each? Cheers, Amit On 10 Aug 02, John Rigby wrote: > On the subject of adding other platforms, should we do a source > package per platform since it takes seven hours to build? I'm not > talking about omap4, that can coexist with omap3. Adding mx51 and > versatile express are issues though. > > As I am thinking about this I wonder if it matters. Is there a > difference between one build machine taking 21 hours to build three > kernels and three build machines taking seven hours? > > John > > On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 12:51 AM, Amit Kucheria > <amit.kuche...@linaro.org> wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 12:35 AM, Loïc Minier <loic.min...@linaro.org> > > wrote: > >> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010, John Rigby wrote: > >>> The long awaited first linux-linaro kernel package is available in the > >>> linaro-maintainers kernel ppa: > >>> ppa:linaro-maintainers/kernel > >>> https://launchpad.net/~linaro-maintainers/+archive/kernel > >> > >> Awesome! So it's OMAP for now, is it OMAP3 and 4, or just 3? > >> > >> By any chance, would you have a list of enabled boards / boards > >> expected to work? > > > > John, > > > > If you're following the Ubuntu Kernel Team mailing list, you'll find > > patches posted by me to enable OMAP4 (one backport + config). This > > will get you OMAP3 and 4 support in the same kernel. You could also > > consider enabling the i.MX51 Babbage board from mainline. Both of > > these will boot up to serial console. > > > > Regards, > > Amit > > > > _______________________________________________ > > linaro-dev mailing list > > linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org > > http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev > > _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
