Ian Campbell wrote:
On Tue, 2015-12-01 at 16:10 +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
With respect to mainline kernel support, this page shows a pretty good
picture:
http://elinux.org/RPi_Upstreaming
Many of the drivers are already upstreamed or queued for 4.4.
So is there a chance it will be supported by "Stretch", or will it be
whatever comes after that?
If someone does the work there's no reason it couldn't make Stretch,
the freeze isn't until the second half of next year.
I guess the first step in "doing the work" would be tested patches to
enable the relevant drivers etc in the .config for the armmp package
filed as wishlist bugs against src:linux package, once trunk hits 4.4
if that's a prerequisite.
A quirk of the RPi appears to be with with the standard loader (i.e.
rather than going via something like U-Boot) it doesn't use an initrd.
This appears to be causing people problems if they want to do something
like moving their main filesystem onto mirrored USB devices, because
there's no obvious way to get mdadm running early enough.
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