On Sat, 2015-02-21 at 10:41 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
By the right thing I mean having things just work for the end user, whatever I'm doing having things just work is always my end goal. This is also why I'm mostly focussing upstream, which has resulted in Fedora 21 and the upcoming Debian release supporting allwinner devices ootb (albeit only headless) and the upcoming F-22 release will have much improved allwinner device support, supporting more devices, and supporting video output, etc.
Speaking of which, if someone were to identify a suitable set of simple-fb backports for 3.16 and they are reasonably self contained I'd happily backport them to the kenrel which is going to be in the next Debian release too...
Ian, can you live with overloading the high machine-id bits to deliberately break old kernels when not compiled with old kernel compatibility?
It kind of sucks, but so do all the options it seems, I guess we can live with it...
Ian.