On 1 December 2011 19:14, David Zinman david.zinman@linaro.org wrote:
A request has been received to discontinue Linaro's support for the Beagleboard and Beagleboard-xM hardware.
The following conditions will be applied for the 2012.01 release cycle: * There will be no more LEB or Linaro Developer builds. * No more testing will be applied by Linaro to the boards at all, and no quality assurance will be performed. * No more bugs will be filed against these boards assigned to Linaro resources. * All currently filed bugs will be re-targeted to the appropriate community resource. * Landing team support is no longer needed or expected. * Linaro Release notes will no longer refer to Beagleboard.
I'm in two minds about this: On the 'that's fine' side is: 1) We support other A8 boards 2) We can always run non-linaro installs on the Beagles if we want to test other things like toolchains 3) There have been some bugs that have made it hard for me to use the beagle for a while anyway.
On the 'hmm I'd rather not' side is: 1) The Beagle is still quite popular 2) It's the only non-A9 board I physically have
I think it's OK to drop beagle, but we should make sure we keep an A8 board of some type; or to be more specific we should : a) Make sure we don't become an A9 monoculture - from a toolchain point of view it's valuable to see whether the behaviour you are seeing is specific to one chip type. b) Make sure we have some ARM V7-nonsmp hosts that we can test to make sure that we don't break them (I'm thinking that there are some prefetch instructions that were added in v7-SMP).
Dave
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