On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 05:56:49PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > Obviously there has to be a middle ground. We're building the binary > packages for the configuration Dave mentioned (v7A/Neon), but IMHO > that shouldn't prevent anyone from rebuilding it with our tool chain > without having to make significant changes. If there are patches readily > available for stuff that's not our primary focus (thumb1, non-cortex v7A > CPUs, vfp without neon, ...), I'd say we should still keep them or > get them upstream.
Arnd is right; what's missing is infrastructure and/or somebody to actually build and QA varying configuration for the toolchain and targets. I'd like it so that people could pick up Ubuntu and tell it to bootstrap build a v5 archive and assemble an image from that in a few simple commands; if that was easy then finding somebody to actually maintain this in parallel to our platform releases would be easier. Right now you just need too much detailed knowledge. This is work that Foundations and Infrastructure have on their plates -- so I'd like Scott and Steve to use the opportunity to fish out low-hanging fruit that can be done and use it to inform their plans. -- Christian Robottom Reis | [+55] 16 9112 6430 | http://launchpad.net/~kiko Linaro Engineering VP | [ +1] 612 216 4935 | http://async.com.br/~kiko _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
