On 2024-01-05, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2023-11-23, Andreas Henriksson wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 08:16:43PM +0100, Tobias Heider wrote: >>> On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 10:51:04AM -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >>> > On 2023-11-23, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > ... >>> > > 3/ do we include patches? >>> > > 3.1/ No patches. If this is the desired path I can volunteer >>> > > to test that it boots on my M1 machine. Other machines >>> > > should probably be considered unsupported for now, >>> > > even though they might have limited usefulness. >>> > > 3.2/ Minimal set of patches. We identify what we consider >>> > > crutial only patches and recruit volunteers to test. >>> > > M2 keyboard? USB? etc... >>> > > 3.3/ All asahi patches. We consider it simpler to just sync all patches >>> > > with the asahi fork (even though some are even unused, like the >>> > > devicetree patches). We trust the Asahi Linux project in their >>> > > quest to upstream all their work and that they will rebase on newer >>> > > releases and make our job easy. >>> > >>> > I am inclined towards starting with no patches or a minimal set of >>> > patches. The asashi folks do seem to generally do a good job of >>> > upstreaming, so support should improve over time. >> >> I'm not against going this route, my only concern is using the asahi >> name while shipping an "inferior" variant (no patches). The Asahi Linux >> people have been very good at being end-user focused, fixing all kind of >> bugs and really go above and beyond to not compromise on end user >> experience. Not sure they'd appreciate us shipping it under their name >> while exposing "already fixed" bugs.... but what do I know. >> We can always add patches later I guess. The Trixie freeze is not >> happening soon and we're not providing any installer yet, so it should >> just be a few #debian-bananas people trying this out for a while still >> I guess. > > This seems like the main blocker at this point; I am hoping to upload at > least 2024.01-rc6 to experimental shortly (and 2024.01 to unstable once > it releases), and it would be nice to include a u-boot variant > supporting these boards, but I am nervous about shipping patches. As > you pointed out an unpatched version with asashi in the name might not > be appreciated... but ... uh, er. Hrm. I would really like to get this > in!
I guess we could include a note in the description? Something like: This package does not include all patches shipped by the asahi project, only patches that have been merged in mainline u-boot. live well, vagrant
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