* Steve McIntyre <st...@einval.com> [2011-02-22 13:56]: > As mentioned a few months back, we're using several of these machines > as build daemons for the armel architecture. More details at
> Please could you add a new kernel flavour for these machines? I still don't believe that this is a good idea because of the small userbase of people using products based on the MV78xx0 chip. Apart from one NAS device from Buffalo, I'm not aware of any commercial products based on this chip that are widely available for purchase. While the Marvell DB-78x00-BP boards are an important part of our internal infrastructure, the people running these boards also have the knowledge to build their own kernels. Adding another kernel flavour will considerably increase the build time for the whole kernel package on ARM. There are several platforms that have a much larger userbase (OMAP, MX5, S5, etc) and for which I'd rather add a kernel image before I add one for MV78xx0. As a compromise, we could add a kernel config file for MV78xx0 to the Debian kernel package but not build this flavour by Debian. This way, you'd just need to add one line to the config file and rebuild the kernel. Would that help? -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
