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

[Lukasz Zemczak]

Ah, ok, completely forgot about the Unleashed and Unmatched boards,
sorry about that. Yes, in that case it's indeed a bit of a different
story - but as I said, u-boot is anyway less important for the pi, as
it's only relevant really for focal and earlier.

On Mon, 29 Mar 2021 at 14:32, Dimitri John Ledkov
<dimitri.ledkov at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> 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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>
> Dimitri.



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