On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Nikolay Dimitrov <[email protected]> wrote: > On 06/18/2015 07:21 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote: ... >> #2 linux-fslc is a tree to host fslc modified kernels. It has no >> compromise to be mainline only. >> >> #3 allow us to share work among vendors and bring fixes while reusing >> the work done by FSL BSP team, board vendors and community. >> >> #4 has no support; as soon you port it to your board it is >> non-supported kernel. As soon you move away of their BSP release it >> is non-supported kernel and plus it does not have patches applied >> once tagged (nor security or fixes) so any change needs to wait for >> next GA. >> >> To be honest, FSL does not apply fixes until next GA so there is no >> way to improve their kernel, u-boot, whatever. We try to fill the gap >> here and avoid work duplication. >> >> The amount of duplicated work done by board vendors is insane, I am >> trying to improve it as much as I can. > > > I see, and fully agree with the explanations. My current understanding > (could be wrong) is that the current FSL drivers in 3.14.28 are not > possible to be rebased to newer mainline kernels, is that correct?
Correct; some can be adapted to work on top of mainline kernel however this is another derivative work. > That's why I commented about the possible confusion, as for me it's good > to see in the kernel name whether it has or has not support for the SoC > bells/whistles (-mainline/-fslc vs -imx). > > If my assumption is wrong and these drivers *can* be rebased while > retaining compatibility with the binary blobs, than probably #2 and #3 > start to look like something that can be merged (what Daiane said also). Some features can be forward-ported but this is another possible fork to be started, I won't commit to this myself at this moment. -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems http://www.ossystems.com.br http://code.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 (53) 9981-7854 Mobile: +1 (347) 903-9750 -- _______________________________________________ meta-freescale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/meta-freescale
