Re: [Xen-devel] linux-arm-xen branch, commit access, etc.

[Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

CC'ing Julien

On Fri, 20 Oct 2017, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Stefano Stabellini writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] linux-arm-xen branch, commit 
> access, etc."):
> > On Fri, 20 Oct 2017, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > > 3. Use upstream released kernels. Follow them when they are released.
> > 
> > I agree with Konrad. The reason why that branch is there is that
> > initially we needed a couple of patches to run Linux on Exynos5 boards
> > (Arndale). Today, vanilla releases should work. For example, 4.13 has
> > everything we need as far as I can tell. I think it is time to remove
> > the special branch.
> 
> So vanilla kernels are going to work well on our new ARM64 boxes, eg
> ThunderX, and whatever we come up with for new ARM32 testing too ?

I think so: ThunderX and other server platforms should be more
"standard" than small embedded boards. But if we decide to buy some
small and cheap ARM32 boards, such as Linaro HiKey, they tend to still
require special kernel trees.

In other words: I think we should be able to get rid of the special tree
for the hardware that we have today, but I cannot guarantee that we
won't ever need it in the future.

Julien, do you think we need to keep a special linux tree around for Xen
on ARM testing in OSSTest or we can start using vanilla kernel releases?
I would love to get rid of it, if you know of any reasons why we have to
keep it, this is the time to speak :-)

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