Retirement of fsl-imx51 in Karmic

[Eric Miao]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Bryan Wu <bryan.wu at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Stefan Bader
> <stefan.bader at canonical.com> wrote:
>> On 09/20/2010 07:39 PM, Tobin Davis wrote:
>>> Just out of curiosity, why not use the same kernel as in Lucid?  They
>>> are the same base kernel, just built for different HW (armv6+vfp vs
>>> armv7).
>>
>> We could and that would be done by moving the code back from the Lucid repo to
>> the Karmic repo (in order to make kernels for a release be in the release repo).
>> But frankly, even this being not a big issue to do, I do not really want to
>> spend any effort on something that is not used. And if every development and
>> project has moved to Lucid, why bother?
>>
>> Ike, are you aware of any Karmic arm project for OEM that use the fsl-imx51
>> branch there?
>>
>
> I agree to drop this support in karmic for fsl-imx51. No OEM project
> is based on Karmic fsl-imx51.
>

There is no known OEM project based on Karmic mvl-dove as well.

And if Lucid kernel can support Karmic user-space out of the box, I
would vote for drop mvl-dove in karmic kernel as well.

And Cc'ed David to see the impact from biz perspective?

> Thanks,
> -Bryan
>