Ubuntu 2.6.38-rc3 based OMAP4 kernel

[Tim Gardner]

On 02/07/2011 09:48 AM, Dechesne, Nicolas wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Jan, Sebastien<s-jan at ti.com>  wrote:
>
>> Right, the video outputs are not supported yet with this .38 kernel,
>> so we will need to have both packages available for some weeks (2.6.35
>> based with video support and 2.6.38), using the 2.6.35 one for the
>> natty images now, and can switch to .38 when with have some video
>> support with it.
>> The idea is to start providing a 2.6.38 kernel package now to enable
>> testing with it.
>>
>
> Tim, in fact during the call oliver/ricardo mentioned that they would like
> to get started at least with a minimal console image based on .38 kernel.
> then we need to keep the current .35 based branch for the
> linux-image-2.6.35-xxx-omap4 package, and we need to make sure that
> linux-image-omap4 pulls this one, but we need a new
> linux-image-2.6.38-xxx-omap4 package with this minimal kernel so that anyone
> who wants a min console can use it. once we have display support we can
> update linux-image-omap4 to depend on the new one.
>
> in the mean time we will need 2 branches in the git tree, ti-omap4-old (for
> the .35), and ti-omap4 for the new version.
>
> nicolas
>

OK, I had a chat with Oliver on IRC and this is what we came up with.

1) Leave the current Natty linux-ti-omap4 archive package as it is for 
now, e.g. based on 2.6.35. This allows GUI work to proceed on Unity, etc.

2) Start a 2.6.38 based ti-omap4-dev branch in the Natty repository at 
git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-natty.git.

3) Upload the ti-omap4-dev branch source package to 
http://ppa.launchpad.net/canonical-kernel-team/ppa/ubuntu, a 
non-virtualized PPA that can build ARM packages. Note that the binaries 
produced by the this upload will _not_ be tracked by a meta package.

This arrangement can only work until Natty kernel freeze. After that, 
the c-k-t PPA will begin to be used for official Natty packages by the 
stable team.

Do you think this will suffice?

rtg
-- 
Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com