[meta-freescale] [ANN] Vybrid support going to be removed if no one jumps in for proper maintenance

[Otavio Salvador]

On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 6:26 PM, Stefan Agner <stefan at agner.ch> wrote:
> On 2015-10-07 13:58, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> The Vybrid support in the meta-fsl-arm is mostly dead upstream as they
>> are non-responsive for the requests we did[1]. In other occasions I
>> tried to contact them privately asking for their help and there
>> without success.
>>
>> 1.
>> https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/meta-freescale/2015-August/015665.html
>>
>> The kernel is quite old (3.0.15) and has problems building with
>> current toolchain (GCC 5.2) and several known security flaws.
>>
>> Is there someone willing to adopt it? otherwise I plan to send a
>> removal patch for it in next coming days.
>
> I am willing to maintain a 4.1 (or later) based tree for Vybrid. In
> vanilla 4.1, support is fairly well with some pieces missing, e.g. NAND
> and graphics driver...

I really appreciate your offer and this goes in the best long-term
direction in my opinion.

Please let me know if you need any help from me. :-)

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