From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp2-g21.free.fr (smtp2-g21.free.fr [212.27.42.2]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EC77E014AD for ; Fri, 5 Apr 2013 05:48:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from e6520eb (pac33-2-82-240-38-71.fbx.proxad.net [82.240.38.71]) (Authenticated sender: eukrea) by smtp2-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EAB6D4B012A; Fri, 5 Apr 2013 14:48:36 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 14:48:35 +0200 From: Eric =?UTF-8?B?QsOpbmFyZA==?= To: Otavio Salvador Message-ID: <20130405144835.6c55f4ae@e6520eb> In-Reply-To: References: <1365105059-3021-1-git-send-email-Mahesh.Mahadevan@freescale.com> <6586708B5E10534CB2F1D6F0FBA138DC31BAAB@039-SN1MPN1-003.039d.mgd.msft.net> <20130405084607.2250bb0f@e6520eb> Organization: =?UTF-8?B?RXVrcsOpYQ==?= Electromatique X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.0 (GTK+ 2.24.13; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: "meta-freescale@yoctoproject.org" , Mahadevan Mahesh-R9AADQ Subject: Re: [fsl-community-bsp-platform][PATCH] linux-imx (2.6.35): mxs and mx5: Update to latest from FSL GIT X-BeenThere: meta-freescale@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Usage and development list for the meta-fsl-* layers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 12:48:46 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Le Fri, 5 Apr 2013 09:34:12 -0300, Otavio Salvador a =C3=A9crit : > On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 3:46 AM, Eric B=C3=A9nard wrote: > > Hi Otavio, > > > > Le Thu, 4 Apr 2013 18:16:11 -0300, > > Otavio Salvador a =C3=A9crit : > > > >> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Mahadevan Mahesh-R9AADQ > >> wrote: > >> > Merge has already been done. Future releases for MX53 and MX28 will = be based off this branch. > >> > > >> > Same branch for both. > >> > >> > >> We are very close of branching to 1.4 release and I am not comfortable > >> in changing the kernel version to a new branch that close. We're using > >> the "oficial" BSP release for now and I'd prefer to change it after we > >> start 1.5 development so we can get a good test coverage. > >> > > We still have 20 days before Yocto 1.4's release to validate these > > changes so if the official Freescale maintainers say this kernel is the > > one to use for i.MX53 and i.MX28 I would trust him and I think it > > would be great to take the opportunity to release 1.4 as a really up to > > date BSP for mature products like i.MX28 and i.MX53. > > > > When looking at the commit log of this branch we can see that it > > contains many fixes so the risk of regression is quite limited. >=20 > If you check the number of fixes included in MX28 1.1.0 and which are > not included in the "maintain" branch, it is a huge delta. Both > 11.09.01 and 1.1.0 cannot be merge on the "maintain" branch without a > HUGE number of conflicts. >=20 Who is in a better place than Freescale's kernel maintainer to say which kernel we should use on their platforms ? Eric