Hi Josh, On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> Just thought I would ping the list about my current plans for kernel >> 3.8 in rawhide so people are aware of what's going on. >> >> I'm breaking it down into a couple of phases to make the change less >> of a problem (with luck): >> >> 1) phase 1 is basically a basic 3.7 -> 3.8 jump and will include the following: >> * drop separate imx kernel. Currently doesn't support the previous HW >> we supported with the imx kernel. It's now buildable as a unified >> kernel >> * deal with new kernel config options we need to actually build the config. > > When you're dropping separate kernels, dealing with new kconfig options, > or shuffling around config-arm* files, please keep in mind that the older > Fedora releases get rebased as well. Right now, F18 is at 3.7 in > updates-testing, but it will eventually move to the 3.8 kernel and F17 > likely will a bit after that. > > If a platform is dropped in rawhide but not the older releases, you'll > still wind up having to deal with it there. I'm not sure there's much > that can be done, but it is something that does come up every time we do > a kernel rebase. Yes, well and truly aware of that. I've seen the 3.7 kernel in updates-testing. We're discussing the pros and cons to work out the best way to deal with these. Thanks for the heads up though. Peter _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
