[Buildroot] Buildroot maintainer and stable releases
Peter Korsgaard
jacmet at uclibc.org
Wed Jan 7 08:27:34 UTC 2009
>>>>> "Markus" == Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg at web.de> writes:
(resend with trimmed Cc line to please mailman)
Hi,
>> >>From talking with HcE on IRC, it seems like the Atmel fork of
>> buildroot is the recommended solution for avr32 users anyway.
Markus> I wonder, why many of the patches are also included in uClibc's
Markus> Buildroot then.
Me too.
Markus> Don't the avr32 users use Atmel's Buildroot? I'm an avr32
Markus> user myself and only use Atmel's Buildroot for
Markus> development. One drawback is that I'm not up-to-date with
Markus> uClibc, because these changes are only seldom merged into the
Markus> Atmel branches, only short before their release
Markus> candidates. So I end up working on another file base, which
Markus> doesn't ease integration of changes into uClibc's
Markus> Buildroot. I could merge myself, a branch "upstream" is
Markus> available and is updated often, but that doesn't make sense
Markus> somehow. I haven't yet tried it, so I don't know whether it
Markus> will cause some hassle or not.
I don't know anything about this Atmel fork (where is it?), but as
avr32 is maturing, long term I don't see why we cannot support it in
uclibc buildroot.
Right now things are kind of a mess as avr32 is lacking from most
upstream projects, so there's lots of big patches involved. As things
are now, I don't see missing avr32 as a showstopper for a first
release.
Ulf> You have complained about size of patches, and
Ulf> that is why there is a prepatched toolchain for AVR32.
Ulf> If that is not considered to be OK, then the several
Ulf> MBytes of patches has to be introduced into the trunk.
>>
>> It's not the size in bytes as such, it's the special casing and
>> (effectively) black box patches. Even when you test your changes on
>> multiple archs there's a fairly big change that you break stuff for
>> avr32/at91, or that you guys break it for the other archs. The same
>> with moving packages to new versions or removing old versions, you
>> cannot expect other people to forward port those arch specific
>> patches.
Markus> Yes, mplayer for example is more than 2 years old and includes a huge
Markus> avr32 patch.
Exactly. Who will redo this patch if I bump the mplayer version?
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Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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