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

[Tony Felice]

Hi Otavio,

I have added GCC 5.2 build support to the 3.13 Timesys Linux kernel. We
investigated Linux 4.1 about a month ago and found that there was some
missing core support for the Vybrid Tower: QSPI, MCC v2.x, USB Host, NOR
Flash with jffs2/ubifs, and touchscreen functionality with the TWR-LCD-RGB.
Our goal is to mainline support for these or to coordinate with Toradex to
add support to their 4.1 kernel, targeting the April 2016 Yocto release. I
will submit the 3.13 patches for you to review - at the very least, these
will provide complete Vybrid support for this coming release.

Thanks,

Tony

On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 5:29 PM, Otavio Salvador <
otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br> wrote:

> 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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Tony Felice
Vybrid Technical Lead
Timesys Corporation
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