On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 09:33:35PM +0100, Zygmunt Krynicki wrote:
HI.
I'm building a LAVA service for running fast models. Quite soon (*) we'll be ready to open an alpha access. Right now you will need to bring your own root filesystem and kernel image to use it. With that in mind I wanted to start a discussion about the state of A15 support in Linaro kernel(s). I need to understand two things:
- Are we ready to do automatic builds for A15 kernels?
- If so, which configs and trees should we consider
The basic A15 CPU support is upstream, but no board support.
The board support emulation on the model is for obscure reasons not exactly the same as a real VExpress, but it's pretty close.
With Pawel Moll's VExpress device tree support patches on top of mainline, we can produce a single kernel config and a set of device trees which allow booting on all the A15-based model variants.
I'll be pushing a tree onto git.linaro.org soon with that stuff.
The ARM landing team guys should be able to advice on the amount of effort required to merge android with such a kernel. I don't currently know anything in that area.
Cheers ---Dave