and everyone... On 22 September 2011 11:48, Zach Pfeffer <zach.pfef...@linaro.org> wrote: > Adding kiko, Alexander and Scott. > > On 22 September 2011 10:39, Zach Pfeffer <zach.pfef...@linaro.org> wrote: >> I just wanted to get a thread going on this. >> >> Andy's idea: >> >> "What I think we need is for Linaro to take charge of common-3.x, ie, >> a linaro-common-tracking branch. That will let anyone 'androidize' >> Linus HEAD based trees, which you can't do routinely at the moment. I >> guess usually, it's no so painful to continuously uplevel Android >> patchset day by day unless some gross conflict is coming." >> >> John's opinion is that this upleveling isn't trivial and that we >> should wait for Google to do it since they're the experts. >> >> I also share this opinion. I don't think we should diverg from >> Google's official kernel/common.git by pre-uplevaling since the result >> won't be a valid Android tree. >> >> The problem is, it would be useful to have a tracking Android branch >> so that people who use topic trees can more easily octopus merge them >> together to produce an Android tree, the alternative is to cherry-pick >> patch sets onto jstultz's from trees who have a different basis. >> >> Usually Android's kernel/common.git is upreved more often, but with >> kernel.org being down and http://android.git.kernel.org/ we're >> currently in a weird situation. > > So the question is, > > Its non-trivial to take a LT or WG tree, which is based on the latest > kernel and move it into a platform, as the number of platforms > increases this will become a bigger job. We've managed to get by, but > we should come up with a cohesive plan so that we can meet this > challenge. Thoughts? > >> -- >> Zach Pfeffer >> Android Platform Team Lead, Linaro Platform Teams >> Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs >> Follow Linaro: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Linaro >> http://twitter.com/#!/linaroorg - http://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog >> > > > > -- > Zach Pfeffer > Android Platform Team Lead, Linaro Platform Teams > Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs > Follow Linaro: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Linaro > http://twitter.com/#!/linaroorg - http://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog >
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