[meta-freescale] [fsl-community-bsp-platform][PATCH] linux-imx (2.6.35): mxs and mx5: Update to latest from FSL GIT

[Otavio Salvador]

On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 3:46 AM, Eric Bénard <eric at eukrea.com> wrote:
> Hi Otavio,
>
> Le Thu, 4 Apr 2013 18:16:11 -0300,
> Otavio Salvador <otavio at ossystems.com.br> a écrit :
>
>> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Mahadevan Mahesh-R9AADQ
>> <r9aadq at freescale.com> wrote:
>> > Merge has already been done. Future releases for MX53 and MX28 will be based off this branch.
>> >
>> > Same branch for both.
>>
>>
>> We are very close of branching to 1.4 release and I am not comfortable
>> in changing the kernel version to a new branch that close. We're using
>> the "oficial" BSP release for now and I'd prefer to change it after we
>> start 1.5 development so we can get a good test coverage.
>>
> We still have 20 days before Yocto 1.4's release to validate these
> changes so if the official Freescale maintainers say this kernel is the
> one to use for i.MX53 and i.MX28 I would trust him and I think it
> would be great to take the opportunity to release 1.4 as a really up to
> date BSP for mature products like i.MX28 and i.MX53.
>
> When looking at the commit log of this branch we can see that it
> contains many fixes so the risk of regression is quite limited.

If you check the number of fixes included in MX28 1.1.0 and which are
not included in the "maintain" branch, it is a huge delta. Both
11.09.01 and 1.1.0 cannot be merge on the "maintain" branch without a
HUGE number of conflicts.

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