[Buildroot] [PATCH] DEVELOPERS: add Nicholas Sielicki as contact for galileo_defconfig
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Fri Jan 3 08:24:43 UTC 2020
Hello Ray,
On Thu, 2 Jan 2020 21:21:35 +0000
"Kinsella, Ray" <ray.kinsella at intel.com> wrote:
> I had thought about that a few times, upgrading the kernel to the latest and greatest.
>
> A good share of the Quark/X1000 SoC + Galileo Board support was upstreamed to the kernel.
> However some was not.
>
> That out-of-tree 3.14 was the last version Intel engineers validated as supporting all the I/Os etc.
> So there is some unknown delta between the what is supported by the upstream and this out-of-tree kernels
>
> If memory serves me the main difference was the SRAM drivers and some power management features.
>
> Given this board is pretty old.
> I would be inclined to update it to the latest kernel, and we can see if anyone screams.
> No doubt we will be retiring it completely soon enough.
Does it still make sense to have this Galileo defconfig? If I
understood correctly, this platform is no longer sold/supported by
Intel, so perhaps we should simply remove this defconfig, either now or
at some point in the future ?
> You guys heading to FOSDEM this year?
A number of Buildroot developers will indeed be at FOSDEM, since we
organize our Buildroot Developers meeting right after FOSDEM, see
https://elinux.org/Buildroot:DeveloperDaysFOSDEM2020.
Best regards,
Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
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