Hi, now that Linux 4.1 has been picked to be the next LTS version of Linux [i], I'm wondering about the state of sunxi in the upcoming 4.1 release and longterm support.
1) It was mentioned in one of the emails on this list (I can't find it now), that not all the sunxi patches planned for 4.1 got merged and are now queued for 4.2 instead. Does this cause any issues in 4.1 for sunxi devices or is this merely a delay of features that are independent from the stuff that did get merged? 2) Given that sunxi support in mainline has already come a long way (at least for older SoCs like A10/A20 there's not much left to desire imho) and that there is not much work going into sunxi-3.4 anymore, I'm wondering if there is any interest in a new LTS kernel aimed for sunxi devices or recommended by the sunxi community. I'm not really sure how the current situation is: Is there an effort to ensure, that all important sunxi bugfixes that get applied to the mainline tree are also send to the stable and longterm releases (if they apply there)? If not (since it might be a lot of effort), how about picking a newer LTS tree, make it the recommended LTS version for sunxi devices and ensure that important bugfixes affecting that tree are being applied or backported to it. Or, if somebody wanted to invest even more effort, send backported patches including newer features to the LTSI project for the inclusion in their next LTSI kernel. Now, these are just random thoughts - not thought through (and to some extend I also lack the knowledge for that), but open for discussion. Regards and thanks for all the work being done in this community, Timo [i] https://twitter.com/LinuxLTSI/status/606321352815972354 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
