[Gta04-owner] Status PCBs / Kernel development

[Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller]

Am 31.03.2011 um 14:05 schrieb Radek Polak:

> On Thursday 31 March 2011 09:27:00 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
> 
>> Is someone of you very experienced in that type of work and can help to set
>> up how to work together and organize all this, so that we finally get to
>> the goal of a mainstreamed GTA04 kernel?
> 
> Lars-Peter Clausen seems to be the most competent person for GTA02 kernel 
> development. He actually sent most of GTA02 hardware upstream - you can search 
> vanilla log. He also did awesome work and rewrote/made maintainable patches 
> from andy-tracking mess. I wonder if he is interested in GTA04.

I don't know but I have put him on CC so he may answer if he likes.

> 
> Also distro maintainers will probably take care of keeping/backporting patches 
> that they want in their git's. Common repository for all distros does not work 
> well because some distro is concentrating on stable release while others are 
> in experimental stage.

Well, my idea is that we (GTA04 project) should run some authoritative, bleeding
edge git (connected to HW releases e.g. to fix issues and variants) and distros
(SHR, QtMoko, ...) can take the unstable or stable versions as they prefer. Or they can
wait until we have pushed our patches upstream and they can take kernel.org.

I think this is the same way as BeagleBoard and OpenPandora are working.

In the long run, we may get a working kernel (lagging a little behind our own
developments) into Ubuntu & Debian.

Nikolaus