ACK/Cmnt: [jammy xilinx-zynqmp 0/2] Turn off non-zynqmp arch support
Manuel Diewald
manuel.diewald at canonical.com
Fri Jan 5 10:18:52 UTC 2024
On Wed, Dec 13, 2023 at 03:24:50PM +1000, Portia Stephens wrote:
> [ Impact ]
>
> * This is an optimized kernel for zynqmp range of devices.
> * Currently about 14% of kernel build is targeting non-zynqmp devices, which
> is dead code unused in production
> * This reduces kernel build time, kernel image & modules size, amount of
> required firmware, and makes initrd smaller.
> * This reduces peak memory usage on boot as well
> * This will loose ability to execute this exact same kernel build on non-zynqmp
> device, for benchmarking purposes generic kernel should be used instead.
>
> [ Test Plan ]
>
> * Ensure newly produced kernel installs and boots on Ubuntu Server and Ubuntu
> Core target devices without any loss of peripherals and stock devices.
>
> [ Where problems could occur ]
>
> * This changes may limit ability to smoke-test this kernel on non-zynqmp
> devices, if needed support for individual CPUs can be turned back on. Or
> ideally any such testing should move to zynqmp devices.
> (examples of potentially interesting things to turn back on upon request
> are QCOM APPLE suppport for running this kernel on Arm Laptops for developer
> convenience)
> * It is expected for KVM and QEMU to continue to work as both host and guest
>
> Dimitri John Ledkov (2):
> UBUNTU: [Config] Turn off non-zynqmp arch support
> UBUNTU: [Packaging] Update new baseline abi checks
>
> debian.zynqmp/abi/arm64/xilinx-zynqmp | 39937 ++++++++--------
> debian.zynqmp/abi/arm64/xilinx-zynqmp.modules | 921 +-
> .../abi/arm64/xilinx-zynqmp.modules.builtin | 152 -
> debian.zynqmp/abi/fwinfo | 68 +-
> debian.zynqmp/abi/fwinfo.builtin | 3 -
> debian.zynqmp/config/annotations | 1623 +-
> 6 files changed, 20917 insertions(+), 21787 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.34.1
>
>
> --
> kernel-team mailing list
> kernel-team at lists.ubuntu.com
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kernel-team
I would include the BugLink also in the cover letter for completeness.
The [ Other Info ] section in the LP bug could be removed.
Acked-by: Manuel Diewald <manuel.diewald at canonical.com>
--
Manuel
More information about the kernel-team
mailing list