On 11/09/2010 03:19 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 18:07, Tim Bird wrote: >> It was noted at the summit that several CE companies and embedded >> projects will be using (or are already using) 2.6.35 for upcoming >> products or releases. This includes Sony, Google, Meego, and Linaro. On >> behalf of the CE Linux Forum and a number of consumer electronics >> companies, projects and community developers, we therefore declare >> 2.6.35 as a flag version of the kernel for embedded use. Several >> companies will be investing in development, integration and testing of >> this version. Entities wanting to do business with those companies would >> therefore be well-advised to make sure their hardware, drivers and >> enhancements work well with this version of the kernel. > > wouldnt it make more sense to piggy back the extensive work going into > the "stable" tree ? many of the points you raise after all are the > entire founding point of it. plus, all the main distros form around > that, are spending time working on that, is marked as supported for 2 > or 3 years, and there is already infrastructure/framework/process in > place (stable@xxxxxxxxxx). > > so instead of picking arbitrary versions (like 2.6.35) and needlessly > replicating the huge work load, simply declare these stable trees as > the "flag" versions. that means today it'd be 2.6.32.y. The fact that this tree is already a year old, and not likely to be brought forward for at least another 2 years is the reason we didn't choose it this time. Most of the high-profile, active embedded projects are already on 2.6.35. For companies looking to adopt a new base kernel in the next 12 months, I don't want to have them start with a year-old kernel. We did consider the utility of synchronizing with the enterprise stable tree, but the timing just didn't work too well this time around. ============================= Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Network Entertainment ============================= -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
