On 06/07/2012 07:11 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: > > On 08.06.2012, at 00:48, Jon Masters wrote: > >> On 06/07/2012 02:05 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: >>> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Steve McIntyre >> >>>> Fedora >>>> ====== >>>> >>>> Fedora 17 has been released for primary platforms, but not for >>>> ARM yet. Still some remaining work. >>>> >>>> * OMAP4 "doesn't work" (crashes), likely due to reliance on pure >>>> upstream OMAP support rather than TI branches. Other distros have >>>> used TI patches. >>> >>> It now works fine. It's a bug in the CONFIG_OMAP4_ERRATA_I688 that >>> arrived in the 3.3 kernel. Disabled that and it now works fine. >> >> Right. It was interesting, that we turn out to be almost the only folks >> using an upstream kernel. I talked with some TI folks about how to get >> better upstream-only testing with configs like Fedora. Let's followup on >> that. This might be a config issue, but hopefully we can get some others >> to help test configs and find this kind of thing more quickly. >> >>>> * Might be more similar issues around other SoCs that lack support in >>>> upstream kernel. >>> >>> The SoC's we support (omap, tegra, imx, kirkwood, highbank and >>> vexpress) all work fine with a few minor patches to fix build issues >>> and bugs. Most of the patches are just a few lines. >> >> Indeed. But the point is still there. Lots of other folks are using >> non-upstream trees as their source, which is a difference, and so we >> wanted to convey that Fedora is taking a different (and I think >> ultimately the right one, but I'm biased) approach. > > Not sure I agree here. OpenSUSE is 100% upstream
Good to know. I don't want to make this about distro X or Y (even on cross-disto!) but more about the notion. It's clear that there is some difference in opinion and usage and I think the main thing I want to convey is that this is a reality. So it's not a "blame" thing, it's just that there's a difference in approach and more than I thought was the case some of the sub-trees are getting more direct use out there. Again, it all feeds back into getting stuff tested with non-defconfig. Jon. _______________________________________________ cross-distro mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-distro
