On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 08:45:42PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
Hi Steve,
Hi Peter,
> *Every* major distro working on ARM has implemented what was
agreed by
> all of us in the conf call. Except Fedora. At this point, the message
> *seems* to be that Fedora developers just do not care about working
> with the rest of the community, and that's a real shame. Please, let's
> work together to get this fixed.
There is no "except Fedora" here. To quote your own minutes [3]
"Fedora; they're planning to do it Real Soon Now." from the meeting,
I'm not sure what was said in the meeting regarding releases but this
was something I personally didn't want to ship 5 minutes before we put
a major release out. That said it will most definitely be in Fedora
18, some of it has already landed and the rest will be very soon and
quite possibly rolled back into F-17 once its been tested.
There was urgency in the agreement - we all agreed that there should
*not* be any distro releases of ARM hard-float using the wrong linker
path. The Ubuntu developers managed to make the minor changes needed
and QA them in 2 weeks before they released. Fedora are taking *much*
longer to implement those same changes, which is really frustrating.
In all likely hood we'll support this in a stable release before
both
Debian (I couldn't work out their next stable release date from their
site) and possible even OpenSUSE depending on if it makes the 12.2
release.
*Please* don't release F17/arm without the linker change. The main
point of the cross-distro standardisation work is to fix the older
fragmentation problems in the ARM Linux community. Releasing an
incompatible and broken v7 hard-float distro will set that goal back a
long way, and cause problems and confusion for users and developers.
Cheers,
--
Steve McIntyre steve.mcintyre(a)linaro.org
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