On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Eric Bénard <[email protected]> wrote: > Le Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:59:41 +0000, > McClintock Matthew-B29882 <[email protected]> a écrit : > >> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Eric Bénard <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Le Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:52:02 +0000, >> > McClintock Matthew-B29882 <[email protected]> a écrit : >> >> I think you misinterpreted the intent of my statement, the goal is to >> >> provide the best support we can for the open source versions and get >> >> feedback as well. However, specifically stating what will be done for >> >> each release, branch, layer, etc is not something that is a >> >> deliverable on the open source end and I don't see it happening soon. >> >> That being said, there is no malicious intent and supporting upstream >> >> and making it work as well as possible is the ultimate goal so our SDK >> >> release requires less effort and work. >> >> >> > I may have misinterpreted your statement but it seems you make a >> > difference between the open source version and the SDK release : isn't >> > that roughly the same thing when we talk of meta-fsl-* where the SDK >> > release can be seen as a snapshots of the opensource stable branch at >> > the date of the release ? If not what are the differences ? >> >> They *should* be the same. But for SDK releases sometimes we skip >> entire Yocto releases (e.g. danny). SDK versions *may* contain >> slightly different versions. This comes into play more with oe-core >> where we don't have official control and we need to include a specific >> fix for the SDK. Layers themselves tend to have less reason to deviate >> from the upstream versions since we control both sides so they >> *should* be the same. >> >> > Also, do you plan to sync the public accessible git tree only when you >> > do a release or will they get the patches in "realtime" ? >> >> These should go in real time esp. if we are working on the current >> release (e.g. master branch). Right now we are still using denzil >> until the May release which will be based on what is now master. >> > understood, thanks for the details. > > One last thing while at it : last year, Linaro's FSL team told me they > were about to release an updated kernel for i.MX53 (with updated GPU > closed source libraries & drivers as they had sources for that under > NDA - the userspace binaries are packed into an hwpack named something > like hwpack_linaro-lt-mx5_YYYYMMDD_armel_supported.tar.gz ). > In the end that was never made public but from what I understood they > delivered the sources to Freescale : are there any plan to release > these versions (even if that's not officialy supported by Freescale SDK > and marked as experimental) to meta-fsl-arm so that we can update i.MX53 > based designs to more recent kernel than 2.6.35 and still use the GPU ?
Most of my comments reflect on the ppc / networking side of our organization. So I can't comment on the ARM / Linaro bits. -M _______________________________________________ meta-freescale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/meta-freescale
