[Arm-dev] Project status

[Gordan Bobic]

On 2014-12-03 18:10, Robert Moskowitz wrote:

> Of course, Gordon's approach is also valid.  Use the manufacture's
> buggy uboot and kernel and go with that.  Thing is, you are locked
> into that kernel and kernel updates will get very messy.

Not at all. Once upstream gets a working uboot and kernel, you can
replace what you have end upgrade to the upstream packaged versions.
Using the kernel the device ships with is the pragmatic course of
action when the working kernel sources aren't readily available, it
doesn't lock you into sticking with it in any way.

The problem from the distribution maintenance point of view is that
you cannot plausibly maintain dozens of different kernels for various
different hardware. In the interest of pragmatism both from the
point of view of users wanting to have something up and running on
their hardware sooner rather than later and the practical constraints
on distro maintenance, using the kernel that ships with the device
is the least bad option, especially if the alternative is no kernel
at all.

Gordan