[U-Boot] U-Boot Versioning

Robert Schwebel r.schwebel at pengutronix.de
Mon Sep 1 17:54:08 CEST 2008


On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 01:12:31AM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Or use colors.
> 
> The next release will then be the Yellow Submarine :)

We've also considered to name toolchain releases after food. So for
example if gcc-4.3.2 would be spagetti, binutils-2.18 would be tomatos,
glibc-2.8 would be mincemeat; so a release from these components could
be called the "spagetty bolognese" release, which would definitely be
better than gcc-4.3.2-glibc-2.8-kernel-2.6.26-arm-v4t-linux-gnueabi.

The problem comes up if you upgrade binutils to the 2.19 "pickled
herring" revision. The resulting toolchain could have some compatiblity
issues with our users then :)

rsc
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