NAK: [jammy xilinx-zynqmp 0/2] Turn off non-zynqmp arch support

Dimitri John Ledkov dimitri.ledkov at canonical.com
Wed Jan 3 16:06:26 UTC 2024


i think we had two buglinks, and the other one should have been
working or marked public now that this is being submitted.

On Wed, 3 Jan 2024 at 15:56, Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/12/23 10:24 PM, Portia Stephens wrote:
> > [ Impact ]
> >
> > * This is an optimized kernel for zynqmp range of devices.
> > * Currently about 14% of kernel build is targeting non-zynqmp devices, which
> > is dead code unused in production
> > * This reduces kernel build time, kernel image & modules size, amount of
> > required firmware, and makes initrd smaller.
> > * This reduces peak memory usage on boot as well
> > * This will loose ability to execute this exact same kernel build on non-zynqmp
> > device, for benchmarking purposes generic kernel should be used instead.
> >
> > [ Test Plan ]
> >
> > * Ensure newly produced kernel installs and boots on Ubuntu Server and Ubuntu
> > Core target devices without any loss of peripherals and stock devices.
> >
> > [ Where problems could occur ]
> >
> > * This changes may limit ability to smoke-test this kernel on non-zynqmp
> > devices, if needed support for individual CPUs can be turned back on. Or
> > ideally any such testing should move to zynqmp devices.
> > (examples of potentially interesting things to turn back on upon request
> > are QCOM APPLE suppport for running this kernel on Arm Laptops for developer
> > convenience)
> > * It is expected for KVM and QEMU to continue to work as both host and guest
> >
> > Dimitri John Ledkov (2):
> >    UBUNTU: [Config] Turn off non-zynqmp arch support
> >    UBUNTU: [Packaging] Update new baseline abi checks
> >
> >   debian.zynqmp/abi/arm64/xilinx-zynqmp         | 39937 ++++++++--------
> >   debian.zynqmp/abi/arm64/xilinx-zynqmp.modules |   921 +-
> >   .../abi/arm64/xilinx-zynqmp.modules.builtin   |   152 -
> >   debian.zynqmp/abi/fwinfo                      |    68 +-
> >   debian.zynqmp/abi/fwinfo.builtin              |     3 -
> >   debian.zynqmp/config/annotations              |  1623 +-
> >   6 files changed, 20917 insertions(+), 21787 deletions(-)
> >
>
> That BugLink isn't working for me.
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> Tim Gardner
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