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

[Tony Felice]

Hi Otavio,

I was going to push this patchset, but I just rebuilt with u-boot-fslc
v2015.10 and found that with this version of U-Boot, the Tower platform
hangs during U-Boot load. I am going to further investigate tomorrow and
will push my changes once I have fixed the issue.

Thanks,

Tony

On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 5:53 PM, Tony Felice <tony.felice at timesys.com> wrote:

> 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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Tony Felice
Vybrid Technical Lead
Timesys Corporation
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