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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] Support of iMX6 hardware ?
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 10:02:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121207100245.4fb8ef47@skate> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHXCMMJOCtRun6xCjX_sZfQcZxWZLMyVVBnrbzUY1oAhXU7HDw@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Samuel Martin,

On Fri, 7 Dec 2012 09:55:41 +0100, Samuel Martin wrote:

> They are working on it, see:
> http://www.armadeus.com/wiki/index.php?title=Buildroot_Mainline_integration

Great.

> And here, the WIP branch of what I've already done, and I plan to
> post shortly:
> https://github.com/tSed/buildroot/commits/sma/armadeus-integration

Good. Please submit step by step: if you spam us with hundred patches,
we'll never see the end of it.

> It's just a slow process, not necessarly time-to-market-friendly at
> first look! ;-)

The time-to-market excuse is a bad excuse because it is very often
wrong, especially for Buildroot where the barrier to entry is quite
low (writing Buildroot code that gets accepted is quite easy). Armadeus
has been carrying those Buildroot patches for multiple years, and
everytime they upgrade to a newer Buildroot release, they have to
upgrade those patches as well. I am pretty sure that the time they have
spent upgrading those patches and upgrading their Buildroot versions is
significantly larger than the time it would have taken to get those
improvements merged in the first place.

Best regards,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
development, consulting, training and support.
http://free-electrons.com

      reply	other threads:[~2012-12-07  9:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-06  9:14 [Buildroot] Support of iMX6 hardware ? Thierry Bultel
2012-12-06 11:48 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-12-06 15:35   ` Peter Korsgaard
2012-12-07  7:20   ` Thierry Bultel
2012-12-07  8:14     ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-12-07  8:35       ` Samuel Martin
2012-12-07  8:38         ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-12-07  8:55           ` Samuel Martin
2012-12-07  9:02             ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]

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