2010/12/15 Thomas B. Ruecker <[email protected]> > On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 09:47:33AM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > On 12/15/2010 9:26 AM, Thomas B. Ruecker wrote: > >> Now at least Nokia for the N900 provides a much newer kernel for MeeGo, > >>> so those of us who own N900's are in good shape, but the conflict I'm > >>> trying to point out is real... and there will be a point where, even if > >>> you ignore the hard compliance topic of what applications can expect, > >>> the core OS just expects newer kernel functionality. > >> Yes, we've seen this happen with previous hardware where we are stuck > >> with 2.6.22 and a kernel config that clashes with newer udev. > >> That's the moment where we either find a way to patch in the needed > >> feature or say 'tough luck, no cookie for us'. It's not how it should > >> be, yes. Newer kernel would be lovely, but often it won't happen. > > > > it's hard. Some of the more trivial things are easy to backport, but > > once you start hitting whole subsystems or > > core infrastructure you're going down fast. > > > > To run MeeGo 1.3, you will need things like full 2.6.37 level CGROUPS > [...] snip > OK, let's just for a second pretend we get the kernel issue solved. > The beagle-board to my knowledge boots pretty much every bleeding-edge > kernel. Did it help them when they asked for help? No, they just got > yet another rulebook thrown at them. > > This is NOT encouraging community contributions on a hardware level. > > To translate this into blunt words it spells: > > "Do NOT come to MeeGo if you are not $BIGCORP with money to spend. > GO AWAY WE DO NOT WANT YOU!" > > From my point of view that's just sad. > > I think this would be a good time to start discussing how really to get hardware adaptations into MeeGo in a practical manner and make it into a wiki guide..
Everything seems a bit ad-hoc regarding this area, so having some basic rules/procedures written down would be good.. but this may belong better on meego-port...@.. BR Carsten Munk
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