hi, Am Montag, den 08.11.2010, 15:46 +0000 schrieb Jamie Bennett:
- linaro kernels used in ubuntu ARM would need to move to the
supported package set (main) which makes them fall under all freeze restrictions the kernel team sets for ubuntu (only SRUs post kernel freeze, patches and changes all need to go through the ubuntu-kernel mailing list etc)
I think we can deal with the via the SRU process. We have already been using the SRU process this cycle for kernel changes so its a non-issue.
well, the kernel freeze and SRU process would happen for you guys a lot earlier due to that, thats why i wanted to bring it up ...
- configuration changes in the linaro kernels would have to happen to
match the ubuntu distro kernel configs in all places where they do not match yet (this also implies that ubuntu sauce needs to be added to the linaro kernels for making all distro features available)
I'm not sure Linaro want to carry the Ubuntu sauce and match configs. Linaro's continued effort to consolidate and stream-line kernels rather than expand options to cover all eventualities may conflict, this would need to be carefully investigated.
one option i see is that we use the linaro branches as base and add all distro kernel specifics on top here, but thats something the kernel team has to agree to since they will have to be the ones doing that work (and i personally cant really judge how much work this is for them).
- someone has to commit to do security support for these kernels to
match the 18 months security support we provide for ubuntu images (can the ubuntu kernel team and the ubuntu security team commit to that ?)
This would be a problem for Linaro. Currently we have no support options that look like what you describe above. The only option at the moment would be for the Ubuntu Security Team to provide security support for the kernels once they come out of Linaro unless Linaro change their model.
right, i would like to hear something from the security team about this...
I would love to see the sharing of kernels here. We need to come up with a good solution of which I don't have at the moment.
I've cc'd linaro-dev in to solicit more comments from the Linaro side.
doing likewise with the ubuntu-kernel ML now, since i'm not sure they constantly read ubuntu-devel
ciao oli