On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Dominig ar Foll (Intel OTC) < [email protected]> wrote: > > Vitaly, > > the common developers and support is provided on the Tizen Dev mailing list. > https://lists.tizen.org/listinfo/product-dev > This is where you will find help on Common.
That list doesn't seem to get much traffic -- June is half over and there have been no posts. Shouldn't mail be sent here to ensure the largest number of people see it and move to the other list once there is too much traffic on this list? > The source used to build the ARM repo in Common are all public. There doesn't seem to be an agreed upon approach, or if there is, its unclear. Let's take the Renesas request for example: https://lists.tizen.org/pipermail/ivi/2014-June/002636.html They'd like some help in porting Tizen Common to their hardware, but how would one even approach this? It is unclear from Tizen's side in contrast to other distros which provide ARM kernels in multiple flavors (i.e. hardfloat, softfloat) for multiple machines, (i.e. ARM v7 ARM v8, etc.) If Tizen had a small team that tested Tizen Common against an ARM kernel, then they could at least guide on suitable approaches. Currently, one would have to; 1. Identify a kernel that fits Tizen common and your hardware 2. Compile that kernel, with toolchain, to test on the hardware 3. Build Tizen common from source in a build system suitable and widely used for ARM hardware. Just identifying a kernel is a non-trivial step -- are you going to go with a LTSI kernel (hardware in automotive needs long-term support)? Are you going to use Linaro's LTS kernel? It may have features you need. Are those kernels going to bring in the needed features for Tizen common? Has someone identified the needed functionality in the kernel that the Tizen common userland will need so that one doesn't spend a lot of time wondering why certain features don't work? There seems to be a lot missing before a suitable public port to ARM can be done repeatedly in a manner consistent with production systems. Is there a goal to add this type of support? Or is the ARM port of Tizen something that the community will fund and build in their spare time? Regards, Jeremiah
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