Ubuntu ARM and the linaro kernels

[Ricardo Salveti]

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Christian Robottom Reis
<kiko at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 03:05:20AM -0200, Ricardo Salveti wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Nicolas Pitre
>> <nicolas.pitre at canonical.com> wrote:
>> >>> On Tue, 9 Nov 2010, Oliver Grawert wrote:
>> > On Thu, 11 Nov 2010, Ricardo Salveti wrote:
>> >> That's understandable. Now the question is why John is maintaining and
>> >> packaging a tree that also incorporate the Ubuntu sauce on it?
>> >
>> > I think that the main reason is that this was much easier to have a
>> > packaged initial release by simply piggybacking on the existing Ubuntu
>> > infrastructure.  But John's tree and mine are still separate.
>>
>> Ok, so there's nothing that guarantees that John will continue using
>> the same Ubuntu infrastructure and sauce in the future.
>
> I want to put a firm statement in here that Linaro are committed to
> supporting Ubuntu on ARM through our kernel work, and that if it's
> necessary for us to support the kernel maintenance process then we will
> do it -- so there is a firm guarantee from me that we'll always be open
> to working out what outputs you need.
>
> I'd like to talk over the specific case of SAUCE patches, because I'm
> not entirely sure a) how much effort maintaining them is required and b)
> if we need to carry the Intel (and other arches) specific bits of SAUCE
> as well.
>
> I'm getting the curious feeling that the above isn't clear to the people
> on this thread, so hopefully this is a step towards clarity.

Nice, thanks for the clarification.

As Linaro starts to work more closely with upstream, we were thinking
if there was any commitment from Linaro side to continue pushing the
Kernel into Ubuntu, or if this was going to be a responsibility of the
Ubuntu itself (by community work or by any other team). Once it's
clear that not only Linaro is going to help pushing it's own kernel
into Ubuntu, but keeping the Ubuntu Sauce on it, things gets a lot
easier, and now it's just a concern about the security maintenance.

Hopefully someone from the kernel or security team can comment on this.
-- 
Ricardo Salveti de Araujo