Proposition to convert Dave Jones PPU rights list to a raspi packageset - vote

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

Hi,

On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 1:22 PM Lukasz Zemczak <lukasz.zemczak at canonical.com>
wrote:

> I think this should be fine, although currently u-boot and
> flash-kernel are essentially crucial to the raspberry pi experience -
> and I don't think we use any of those for any 'officially' supported
> devices.


u-boot is used for SiFive HiFive Unleased & Unmatched images, as well as to
boot cloud-images on the riscv64 port. Thus care needs to be taken that
those continue to work whenever common portions of u-boot are updated.


> So I'm fine either way, as long as Dave is able to still
> upload those two packages. That being said, I think anyone that would
> be helping out and working on the raspi story might need to have
> upload rights to at least flash-kernel (as u-boot is less of a thing
> for pi in the later series).
>
> Cheers,
>
> On Mon, 29 Mar 2021 at 12:43, Robie Basak <robie.basak at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Lukasz!
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 12:33:34PM +0200, Lukasz Zemczak wrote:
> > > The description of the packageset would be something in the likes of
> > > "Packages related to the support of the Raspberry Pi devices on
> > > Ubuntu".
> >
> > Can I suggest "Packages specific to the support of the Raspberry Pi
> > devices on Ubuntu" instead? This would restrict the packageset to things
> > that don't overlap with non-Pi packages. The reason is that I'd be more
> > comfortable giving developers this set, rather than a set that is much
> > wider in scope.
> >
> > Would this narrower description be practical for the additional packages
> > Dave expects to need to add?
> >
> > Looking at Dave's current PPU list, only u-boot and flash-kernel perhaps
> > don't fit that description as they're used on other platforms as well.
> > In Dave's case, we could leave him with PPU for those, and move the
> > others to the packageset.
> >
> > Robie
>
>
>
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Regards,

Dimitri.
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