The linaro-2.6.38 kernel is now open

[Amit Kucheria]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 6:40 AM, Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre at linaro.org> wrote:
>
> As the next Linaro release (11.05) will include the 2.6.38 kernel, it
> was decided that the linaro-2.6.38 branch would open early i.e. before
> the final 2.6.38 kernel is released.  So there it is.

Great!

> All the extra patches that were available in linaro-2.6.37 should be
> included in linaro-2.6.38 at this point.  Some notable exceptions at the
> moment are some Thumb2 support patches, and some ARMv6k compatibility
> patches.  I expect to get a fresh set from Dave Martin soon for the
> former, and I'll eventually merge RMK's devel branch which would bring
> in the later.
>
> But as you should know already, the feature freeze is due this Thursday
> February 24th.  So now is the time to consider the linaro-2.6.38 tree,
> put on top all the patches you want to see in the upcoming Linaro
> release, and ask me to merge them in.  If you need some subsystem tree
> such as MMC to be included as well then now is the time to say so as
> well.
>

John, when can we expect the kernels in the hwpack to be built from
this? Ball-park numbers are fine. Also, it would be nice to have them
in the PPA ASAP while you fix the packaging problems for an upload to
the archive.

/Amit