On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 5:53 PM, James Westby <james.wes...@canonical.com> wrote: > Hi, > > A hardware pack creation script is now available, so we can generate > them, and the install script is close to being finished too. I have a > lexbuidler backend that we can use later, but these things have so few > requirements to build that I can do it with a cron job or something for > now. >
If the separate lexbuilder backend deployment causes any issues we can also just hook this up to live-helper so we produce the hwpacks in the headless run. > Therefore I need to know what harware packs we want to build, and which > packages we want them to contain, and I will start creating them daily. > I created a hwpack simple file for a really simple support i did locally for live-helper. This should give you an idea what we want to be in there for now: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~linaro-maintainers/linaro/live-helper.config.maverick.alip-hwpacks/annotate/head%3A/binary_hwpacks/linaro-omap3 > For each hardware pack I need: > > * a name (like a package name) > * which (debian) architectures to build it for > * Optionally: > - Origin (short string, e.g. Linaro) > - Maintainer (like in a debian/control file) > - Support information ("unsupported" or "supported") > * A list of archives to take packages from > * A list of packages to include. > OK, a first set of hwpack packages below. Supported/unsupported might need tweakage; and maybe we need an update too. If you create one branch with all hwpack configs we can later update them as we go: linaro-omap3 + Name: Linaro OMAP3 + Architectures: armel + Origin: Linaro + Maintainer: Linaro Platform <linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org> + Support: supported + Archives: Ubuntu main/universe + Linaro overlay + with dep Packages: linux-image-linaro-omap + without dep: u-boot-linaro-omap3-beagle x-loader-omap xserver-xorg-video-omap3 linaro-vexpress + Name: Linaro VExpress + Architectures: armel + Origin: Linaro + Maintainer: Linaro Platform <linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org> + Support: supported + Archives: Ubuntu main/universe + Linaro overlay + with dep Packages: linux-image-linaro-vexpress + without dep: u-boot-linaro-ca9x4-ct-vxp xserver-xorg-video-fbdev linaro-imx51: + Name: Linaro IMX51 + Architectures: armel + Origin: Linaro + Maintainer: Linaro Platform <linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org> + Support: unsupported + Archives: Ubuntu main/universe, linaro overlay, linaro kernel ppa + with dep Packages: linux-image-linaro-mx51 + without dep: u-boot-linaro-mx51evk xserver-xorg-video-fbdev linaro-bsp-omap4: + Name: Linaro BSP OMAP4 + Architectures: armel + Origin: Ubuntu + Maintainer: Linaro BSP Team <linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org> + Support: unsupported + Archives: Ubuntu main/universe + with dep Packages: linux-image-omap4 + without dep: u-boot-linaro-omap4-panda x-loader-omap4 xserver-xorg-video-fbdev linaro-bsp-ux500: + Name: Linaro BSP UX500 + Architectures: armel + Origin: Linaro (BSP) + Maintainer: Linaro BSP Team <linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org> + Support: unsupported + Archives: Ubuntu main/universe, linaro overlay, linaro kernel ppa + with dep Packages: linux-image-ux500 + without dep: u-boot-linaro-ux500 xserver-xorg-video-fbdev > > On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:36:51 -0400, James Westby <james.wes...@canonical.com> > wrote: >> As for the spec itself, it's rather light on the endgame right now. What >> does success look like for this project? Here a few: 1. if we manage to produce N rootfs with M hardware support in N+M rather than N*M tarballs/downloads/build-runs 2. if vendors can ship non-free, click-through hwpacks for highly proprietary graphics, codec and other support 3. if we can track/bi-sect hwpack regressions against a stable rootfs 4. if community releases hwpacks for not-linaro supported boards at some point. 5. ... >> What further steps do we need >> to take once we have scripts to create and install hardware packs, and >> the ability to generate them in lexbuilder? 1. setup a config branch(es) for hwpacks that lexbuilder can work on; enable them 2. update linaro-image-tools package to contain your latest goodies 4. add support for installing hwpacks in linaro-media-create 5. either add linaro-image-tools to headless and head images 5a. ... or install and remove it during linaro-media-creation 6. update plars "download image" script to get the appropriate hwpack together with the head the user wants. -- - Alexander _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
