Hi Marek, On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 3:19 PM, Marek Vasut <ma...@denx.de> wrote: > On 09/21/2017 11:35 PM, Philip Balister wrote: >> On 09/19/2017 04:15 AM, Marek Vasut wrote: >>> On 09/18/2017 06:06 PM, Tom Rini wrote: >>>> On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 04:51:31PM +0100, Burton, Ross wrote: >>>>> On 18 September 2017 at 16:46, Otavio Salvador < >>>>> otavio.salva...@ossystems.com.br> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> What is the policy on doing u-boot version upgrades this late in the >>>>>> >>>>>> release cycle? SHouldn't this wait until after the release? >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Why? >>>>>> >>>>>> It is just another recipe and we are upgrading to the final release. >>>>>> >>>>>> As Martin said, it was already broken. >>>>>> >>>>>> I'll take the responsibility to fix it. But as other packages, upgrades >>>>>> has risk and we have more than enough time to proper fix it. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Why? Because it was merged to master after the freeze. >>>>> >>>>> Personally I'm of the opinion that u-boot is one of those special recipes >>>>> that if an upgrade appears just after freeze, we consider it. If we don't >>>>> keep it up to date BSPs won't use the recipe, and we'll be back to every >>>>> BSP layer containing its own special copy of the u-boot recipe. >>>> >>>> Also please note that U-Boot has a rather regular and public release >>>> schedule: http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/ReleaseCycle so you can have a >>>> good idea beforehand if you want to grab something for a release or not. >>>> >>>> Personally, I would like to see this in. But the security issue that's >>>> been disclosed now is "resolved" just by not enabling functionality that >>>> no one was enabling in mainline, and will be removed in the next >>>> release, so don't feel you need to pull it in on those grounds. >>> >>> I agree that the 2017.09 upgrade is a good idea. >>> >> >> OK, I just wanted to make sure everyone was on the same page about >> timing of the update. We certainly don't want very many recipes to >> decide they are special and take version bumps right up to release. > > Agreed. So what is the conclusion here about this , are we updating to > 2017.09 or not ?
+1 for upgrade. - morats > >> Philip >> >> > > > -- > Best regards, > Marek Vasut > -- > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > openembedded-c...@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot
