Retirement of fsl-imx51 in Karmic

Ike Panhc ike.pan at canonical.com
Tue Sep 21 10:37:50 UTC 2010


On 09/21/2010 03:41 PM, Stefan Bader wrote:
> On 09/20/2010 07:39 PM, Tobin Davis wrote:
>> Just out of curiosity, why not use the same kernel as in Lucid?  They
>> are the same base kernel, just built for different HW (armv6+vfp vs
>> armv7).
> 
> We could and that would be done by moving the code back from the Lucid repo to
> the Karmic repo (in order to make kernels for a release be in the release repo).
> But frankly, even this being not a big issue to do, I do not really want to
> spend any effort on something that is not used. And if every development and
> project has moved to Lucid, why bother?
> 
> Ike, are you aware of any Karmic arm project for OEM that use the fsl-imx51
> branch there?

No, OEM projects of fsl-imx51 are based on Jaunty and Lucid. No Karmic one, its
safe to retire the branch.

> 
> -Stefan
> 
>>
>> And the issue with the boards at the sprint was on bbg 2.5 boards from
>> what I understood.
>>
> 





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