On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 3:03 PM Richard Purdie <richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > On Mon, 2021-06-28 at 14:44 +0200, Andrea Adami wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 2:36 PM Alexander Kanavin > > <alex.kana...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > What I am saying is, can you discuss this with upstream first please? > > > > Sorry, no, I'm not in the position to do that. > > Besides, I am dispatching my armv4/armv5te Zaurus hardware so I will > > not be able to test anymore. > > > > My point here is, for this pulseaudio 14.x release (in Honister) we > > could do an effort and patch the damn file. > > I write this because this is the only failing recipe for > > core-image-sato for armv4 and this arch is still supported in oe-core > > (thank you so much Khem). > > > > So I'd say as long as armv4 and armv5t are supported we need to patch > > the recipe. > > > > With next pulseaudio 15.x the older arm will maybe lose support, I > > don't know now. > > We've left armv4 "support" in there mainly as it doesn't really cost us > anything to do so and does help some users. We're not in a position > where we have many people interested in helping carry patches like this > to pulseaudio. > > What that means is that where there are fixes, they need to be easy to > maintain and not impact the more modern tunes. > > Hacking CC as in the patch you linked to isn't particularly nice, nor > is a global export it requires (changing the behaviour of other arches). > It is also risky as the pulseaudio build system tries to do something > quite different and this workaround is liable to break. > > I'm not against patching in an explicit option to pulseaudio but it > would also be good to mention that to upstream, raising the fact there > is a problem, contra to what their commit says. > > Cheers, > > Richard > > Richard, thanks for reviewing this. As you know I'm mumbling about this on irc these days. Please let's wait and read what Khem proposes.
Note that the switch to meson wasn't mandatory. "we will be dropping support for the autotools build in 15.0" A.A. >
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