Including Qi in OpenWrt trunk
Mirko Vogt
lists at nanl.de
Tue Jul 21 15:43:41 EDT 2009
On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 21:03 +0200, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We exchanged some emails with Wolfgang and it seemed appropriate to give a
> couple of hints on how to minimize the OpenWrt integration effort. Since
> Qi-hardware is likely to be shipped with OpenWrt (correct me if I am wrong)
> it makes sense to have the hardware target supported by OpenWrt directly and
> add maintain the user-space software separately as a start offloading you
> from the build environment.
>
> The repository available at github.com/lindnermarek is cloning a git tree
> containing the OpenWrt trunk Subversion. We try to follow as close as
> possible the stable kernel releases, but everytime a kernel version is no
> longer in use by a target in OpenWrt we remove support for it (like it
> happened recently for 2.6.29), breaking other projects using that particular
> version.
>
> In order to avoid such problems, I would recommend following as close as
> possible the kernel version related changesets in the OpenWrt trunk to know
> when it can break and update to the latest available kernel version as soon
> as possible.
>
> That way, you can still maintain the required kernel version and associated
> files to get your previous kernel version built, as well as testing the new
> stable kernel.
I agree with committing the target into the OpenWrt-tree as soon as the
kernel is running.
Handling the user space part could be done via feeds or, since it's not
too special, also within the OpenWrt-tree itself (as it was done with
the OpenMoko- / s3c24xx-target).
mirko
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