On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 10:14:48AM +0100, Łukasz Stelmach wrote:
> It was <2013-12-31 wto 06:26>, when MyungJoo Ham wrote:
> >>  It was <2013-12-25 ?ro 14:12>, when Yin Kangkai wrote:
> >> > On 2013-12-25, 13:53 +0100, Stephane Desneux wrote:
> >> [...]
> >>>> So regarding your question, Tizen:Generic/armv7/X11 shouldn't be far from
> >>>> mobile, except that the specific components won't be installed. This 
> >>>> image
> >>>> should be installable on a RD-PQ. The same applies to Intel based mobile
> >>>> platforms.
> >>>
> >>> But to be honest, I don't think kernel is in that package set. (As
> >>> discussed in another thread in this list) kernel is always specific
> >>> for different vertical/hardware,
> >>
> >> Indeed they need different configuration. However, I can see no reason
> >> why all verticals can't use a single source tree. If some need some
> >> hardware support this should not be a problem for others. If a profile
> >> needs a patch for kernel's "core" (mm, scheduler, security etc.) that
> >> conflicts with other verticals we need to resolve the conflict not hide it.
> >
> > I also think it would be ideal to share the same source tree.
> > However, the circumstances don't seem to be that ideal now.  Thus, I
> > don't think this is something we can go right now. (At least not for
> > Tizen 3.0)
> >
> > For now, the expected benefit of sharing the source tree between x86
> > Tizen "references" and ARM Tizen "references" or IVI and Mobile:
> > - Sharing bugfix patches. (However, expected to be included in LTS
> > anyway if you use LTS. So this benefit is very limited for LTS kernel
> > users)
> > - Aethestic Kernel (not too significant)
> 
> - and a smaller risk of userland failing after too fast updates.
> 
> There is of course another way to address this problem which I have
> proposed already: multiple Verified labels in gerrit, one for every
> image/profile.

This sounds good, however may hard to move smoothly. Most of us only
care about one vertical and few of us do actively code review or verify
for others.

--
Thanks,
Chengwei

> 
> Kind regards,
> -- 
> Łukasz Stelmach
> Samsung R&D Institute Poland
> Samsung Electronics



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