Ubuntu ARM and the linaro kernels

[Christian Robottom Reis]

On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 03:05:20AM -0200, Ricardo Salveti wrote:
> Probably the work needed to track and merge another tree into the ARM
> related ones. Currently they just need to worry about the upstream
> tree, and to carry the Ubuntu sauce on it. Having and additional
> kernel tree to track and merge will give some more work than they had
> for Maverick, because they will have more patches to review and to
> maintain, in case of conflicts and etc.
> 
> I know this all makes sense, and it's good for the quality of both
> ubuntu and linaro's kernel, but it gives the impression that they will
> end up dealing with more work than they had for Maverick.

Two comments on this specific piece:

    - One potential model is for the Ubuntu ARM kernels to track the
      Linaro tree instead of upstream. I realize this may be a
      controversial suggestion but I do underline that we would give
      this the attention necessary to make it work (hopefully the GCC
      situation has demonstrated this model can work)

    - If that doesn't work, and Steve L.'s team provided trees with
      SAUCE applied, would you be willing to experiment with those
      trees?

I've delisted linaro-dev and ubuntu-devel since I want to avoid
too much speculation on too many public channels (one is enough, even
for me ;-) but I'm very interested in finding a model which works.
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