Hey!
10 days ago, I met with John and Nicolas and with the help of Steve we
discussed how an "upstreamish" release process for u-boot-linaro and
linux-linaro would look like.
I'm sorry for sending the notes out to late, please find them below.
Thanks
== Attendees ==
Nicolas
John
Steve
Loic
== Minutes ==
* Releases every month
* Release announcement on linaro-announce@
* Would we release both -next and -stable? even if no change was done?
* Probably an upstream stable release every week or so
* Between releases, merge upstream stable updates as they show up; before
release, verify that we have the latest stable release
* John wonders whether we need the Ubuntu changes?
* AppArmor went upstream
* aufs isn't used in Linaro
* but we might want to be the upstream for the Ubuntu ARM team, so it makes
sense to have the Ubuntu changes in our Ubuntu packages
* We don't really need to test the Ubuntu changes in our dailies; simpler to
just build daily zImages
* We should include Ubuntu patches in ubuntu, but not in daily builds
* What's the kernel PPA for? Is it for staging and testing, or an overlay?
* The .debs are kind of specific to Ubuntu and distros in general, and we
already integrate with Ubuntu
* Should we produce .debs in a PPA or something before doing a kernel release,
or just before upload to Ubuntu?
* Kernel team is producing vanilla .debs, would be possible to do the same?
* How would we test a new kernel, .deb is simpler than modules.tgz, zImage
with hardcoded modules is easier to test though
* Nicolas would prefer testing zImage; easier this way
* Configs would differ though, and might regress either way
* Linaro KCWG and Linaro .debs would use different configs
* We're doing releases for users, and they mostly expect .debs, but also .rpms
* Conclusion:
* Daily zImage with everything compiled in, no need to worry about modules
* Daily .deb builds that have modules split out, but no Ubuntu patches
* Monthly release of the above
* Monthly integration of that tree into Linaro Platform if possible
* linux-linaro-next + linaro-linaro-stable, same thing
Can add stuff progressively, starting without zImage
Align a monthly release with the 6-monthly release, e.g. kernel release at the
same time as platform release for 10.11
* u-boot: same thing, except we don't have Ubuntu configs and we don't have
the modules problem; could even do a single daily built
* Nicolas would ensure that we have builds for linux trees, and John for
u-boot, and each of them would post to the tracker
* Then send Call for testing to people with the hardware, report bugs, and if
we have everything tested, release it
* How do we test?
* u-boot?
* just loading a kernel probably
* perhaps recovery procedure: make sure we have a way to load a kernel
from an external source
* loading a kernel from SD (for platforms which have it)
* loading a kernel from the network
* could test network
* linux?
* boots
* display output
* network
* SD R/W
* USB: storage at least
* NAND: shows up in /proc/mtd if supported
* user platforms should push for other test cases like audio if needed on
some boards
* what rootfs to test on?
* for now use our minimal image, or the installed system
* future: a small initramfs with static busybox
ACTION slangasek to talk to ppearse and tgall to see how we could do that
* John: The current configs are way too large, we need to have something
smaller for Linaro
* Needs at least to support everything on the board
* Need some template for the common kernel config parts
ACTION jcrigby to discuss with Frederik ideas about default/common configs
ACTION nico to create a minimal config using the kernel system
ACTION lool to send Ubuntu kernel checker over email
ACTION lool document release process on the wiki
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Loïc Minier
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