On Wednesday 18 January 2012 12:10:35 Jani Monoses wrote: > Hi, > > > As the others devs already mentioned, AC100 support in mainline is > > nearly complete. What is missing is the display support. AFAIK, this > > won't happen in the near furture (or NV or someone else steps up and > > pulls something out of his hat). Olof Johansson made quick and dirty > > port of the current driver to 3.2, but I failed to get it working here. > > This won't be useful for a stable series anyway. Remember the ~600 > > pending patches? > > I remember there were 600 patches mentioned, and I was wondering what > the effort is to > sync them up with 3.2. I don't know how many of those are chromeos > specific vs tegra/ac100 hw bits though.
I think most of them are tegra specific. Porting these to 3.2 would require some understanding of the hardware/subsystems which I don't have. Not to mention the time this effort would require. We really owe much to the chromeos team (in case anyone listens)! Marc > > >> In Ubuntu 12.04 the majority of kernel packages will be 3.2 based so a > >> smaller delta will make > >> security and bugfix updates for the official distro kernels easier to > >> apply to the ac100 one, > >> it being maintained on a best effort basis only. > > > > As it looks now, we have to stick with 3.0 for 12.04. I hope this does > > not create problems. Chromeos normally follows the stable series (with > > a small time lag), so security patches and important bugfixes will also > > go into our kernel tree. But for this to work we would need to release > > our kernels independantly of the Ubuntu releases. Are all ARM machines > > (I mean the kernel) updated at once? > If a 3.2 port is too much effort, then sticking to 3.0 is fine. In > Ubuntu only OMAP3 and some older > architectures are released as part of the main kernel source package, > as they were upstreamed a while ago. > Most others are on their own schedule depending on vendors and > Linaro/Ubuntu being able to keep > up with the newer kernels. All will be at least 3.0 and most will be > based on 3.2 AFAIK though. > > cheers > Jani _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ac100 Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ac100 More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
