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

[Eric Bénard]

Le Fri, 5 Apr 2013 09:34:12 -0300,
Otavio Salvador <otavio at ossystems.com.br> a écrit :

> 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.
> 
Who is in a better place than Freescale's kernel maintainer to say
which kernel we should use on their platforms ?

Eric