[U-Boot] [OE-core] [PATCH] u-boot: Upgrade to 2017.09

[Marek Vasut]

On 09/18/2017 06:06 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 04:51:31PM +0100, Burton, Ross wrote:
>> On 18 September 2017 at 16:46, Otavio Salvador <
>> otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
>>
>>> What is the policy on doing u-boot version upgrades this late in the
>>>
>>> release cycle? SHouldn't this wait until after the release?
>>>
>>>
>>> Why?
>>>
>>> It is just another recipe and we are upgrading to the final release.
>>>
>>> As Martin said, it was already broken.
>>>
>>> I'll take the responsibility to fix it. But as other packages, upgrades
>>> has risk and we have more than enough time to proper fix it.
>>>
>>
>> Why?  Because it was merged to master after the freeze.
>>
>> Personally I'm of the opinion that u-boot is one of those special recipes
>> that if an upgrade appears just after freeze, we consider it.  If we don't
>> keep it up to date BSPs won't use the recipe, and we'll be back to every
>> BSP layer containing its own special copy of the u-boot recipe.
> 
> Also please note that U-Boot has a rather regular and public release
> schedule: http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/ReleaseCycle so you can have a
> good idea beforehand if you want to grab something for a release or not.
> 
> Personally, I would like to see this in.  But the security issue that's
> been disclosed now is "resolved" just by not enabling functionality that
> no one was enabling in mainline, and will be removed in the next
> release, so don't feel you need to pull it in on those grounds.

I agree that the 2017.09 upgrade is a good idea.

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Best regards,
Marek Vasut