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

[Marek Vasut]

On 09/21/2017 11:35 PM, Philip Balister wrote:
> On 09/19/2017 04:15 AM, Marek Vasut wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> 
> OK, I just wanted to make sure everyone was on the same page about
> timing of the update. We certainly don't want very many recipes to
> decide they are special and take version bumps right up to release.

Agreed. So what is the conclusion here about this , are we updating to
2017.09 or not ?

> Philip
> 
> 


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Best regards,
Marek Vasut