On 31 January 2012 11:19, Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pi...@linaro.org> wrote: > On Tue, 31 Jan 2012, Zach Pfeffer wrote: > >> They love our builds, but they'd really like it if they could get >> stock AOSP builds for their boards on stable kernels that they can >> work with using fastboot that have been CI tested and QA'd. >> >> I'm not advocating for the wholesale destruction of our current way of >> life, tip kernels, tip toolchains, linaro-android-media-create, but I >> would like to move in a direction that gives our users what they want. > > And by the time you do that i.e. stable kernel and so on, then those > customers will come back asking for this and that new cool feature > available in the latest upstream kernel and ask you to backport it to > your stable kernel.
Nico, you bring up a good point. Consolidating and upstreaming core ARM features that exist across each architecture is our main job. The customer ask remains the same though. If we deliver a platform with a set of features, customers don't want any of those features to break when we give them an upgrade. > Been there already. > > > Nicolas -- Zach Pfeffer Android Platform Team Lead, Linaro Platform Teams Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Linaro http://twitter.com/#!/linaroorg - http://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
