[Gta04-owner] Debian packages for (hw-validation) kernel and U-Boot available

Neil Jerram neil at ossau.homelinux.net
Thu Dec 15 10:12:53 CET 2011


On 14.12.2011 12:09, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:

[...]
> Since the plan is that the first new boards come next week, we
> simply have no time to bring Neil's kernel to the same state
> in time and be sure that the tester finds hardware bugs and
> is not irritated by software bugs.
[...]
> To summarize: the hw-validation kernel is only a temporary
> solution. In the long run there should be only one kernel.
> Ideally your should be able to directly get sources from
> kernel.org. And the binary from the above mentioned Debian
> compatible repository.

Thanks for your answer on this.  Neil's work makes the mainline option 
look feasible to me, but I guess that reflects just how much of a wizard 
he is; and I agree that it is difficult to argue with the fact that the 
hw-validation kernel already does everything that you need for 
validating A4.

Regards,
        Neil



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