Tomas Mraz wrote:
On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 15:19 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> 4) All supported platforms must have kernels built from the Fedora
> kernel SRPM and enabled by default in the spec file. Each kernel must be
> built in a timely manner for every SRPM upload.
I do not like this requirement. This seems to be specifically provided
to block the possibility to have ARM as a primary architecture if we do
not want to support just one or two ARM platforms. I do not really see a
problem in limiting platforms during rawhide development and branched
development. Additional platforms could be enabled for final builds
before the release freezes and for update builds.
Yet that requirement makes a lot of sense, and is yet another reason why ARM
shouldn't even be CONSIDERED for primary status at this point. Building a
separate kernel for every single machine just doesn't scale. Imagine if we
had to build a Thinkpad kernel, a MacBook kernel, a Dell Inspiron kernel
etc. (and I didn't even bring model numbers in here!). There's no way such a
setup is supportable.
Another solution might be in koji where the kernels for the
additional
platforms would be built in parallel on multiple build hosts. Of course
that would require changes in koji.
Indeed it would, and it still wouldn't fix the underlying issue.
Of course the general requirement that builds on the architecture to
be
promoted must not take much longer time than builds on the current
primary architectures still stays.
Right, and I don't see ARM satisfying this any time soon either.
Kevin Kofler