On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 01:50:47AM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 9:55 PM, Tom Rini trini@konsulko.com wrote:
On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 03:52:08AM +0200, Andreas Färber wrote:
Am 15.10.2015 um 02:40 schrieb Tom Rini:
On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 02:28:34AM +0200, Andreas Färber wrote:
Am 12.10.2015 um 17:18 schrieb Tom Rini:
If you have a regression, speak up.
For -rc4 I had reported that CONFIG_API is broken for sunxi among others. I was told this was fallout of the new Driver Model. Has anyone thought about how to fix this? Is that already a lost cause for 2015.10?
Improving test coverage for such off-by-default features will also be helpful going forward. For instance, Simon's brand-new rk3288 code was lacking some MMC define for CONFIG_API to build iirc - that part is trivial to fix when actually build-testing. I'll see if I can polish some of my fixes in time.
I'm just not sure what to do about CONFIG_API some days. I know one use case is for GRUB but I'd like to move away from that if possible (distros should be doing the generic distro bits and extlinux.conf). After that, I'm only hazily aware of the real use-cases.
The problem is that no other platform uses those. On x86_64, ppc64le, s390x, aarch64, etc. we always use GRUB2. Whether it's boot.scr, extlinux.conf or anything else, it'll require changes to distro tools that end up being special-cased to 32-bit arm. With more and more server vendors adopting UEFI and aarch64, that seems a waste of effort.
That's a thing to ponder, yes. There's nothing ARM32 centric about the generic distro framework and it's on my TODO list now to poke Fedora about enabling the extlinux.conf knob on x86 because there's a growing number of platforms using U-Boot there. And hikey does (and Juno should/will) be doing it as well.
Sure, do you mean patches against the various boards or something in the actual Fedora shipped components, either way both Dennis and I are on the list.
With respect to Fedora, it would be pretty nice if I could install F23 on my Minnowboard Max and have it use config_distro_bootcmd stuff. I think I mentioned this to Hans at ELCE and he said I probably just need to ask and x86 can have the same extlinux.conf generation stuff that ARM has :) I of course need to go whack the minnow config in U-Boot, but that's on me..