On 17/01/14 17:04, Oliver Grawert wrote:> hi, > Am Freitag, den 17.01.2014, 16:47 +0000 schrieb John McAleely: >> I think that is a genie we would rather not let out of the bottle. As >> you note, there are already 7 cases where device specifics are needed. I >> assume that as we gain more devices, that number will grow, even if we >> also act to add generic abstractions into the common parts to manage >> those device specifics. > > well, as you can see from the discussion none of these 7 files *need* to > be in the rootfs tarball ... the bluetooth one should be chipset
Understood & agreed. I think I'm surprised that we are adding stuff to the android tarball in any of these cases, rather than building in some sort of Ubuntu device specific tarball/image/partition/deb. I think that most of these will be examples of Ubuntu choosing to use a different userland stack to Android, and asking the Android tarball to carry device configs for those sits oddly with me. I agree that we will maintain a dependence on Android for some time, but I'd like to minimize the number of things we add to 'Android' - after all, that increases the maintenance for that tarball, and we should assume that the OEMs familiar with that task will be much less familiar about adding whatever appears over the next 6 months in the way of Ubuntu device specifics. I worry that we are creating a material obstacle to shipping and maintaining Ubuntu phones, because there will be a set of poorly understood additions needed 'just for Ubuntu' to the Android tree an OEM maintains. Far better if those Ubuntu device customizations are clearly separate in some way (even if the contents today are almost trivial), since I think we also have a strategic interest in decreasing our dependence on Android. I believe making changes like this will be much harder as the number of production non-reference devices increases, but perhaps that is the mistake I am making. J
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