Improving subarchitecture detection ARM
This specification deals with improving detection of armel sub-architectures for the 10.10 cycle so that boards do not have to be enabled individually. It also looks over the current implementation, its strengths and weaknesses, as well as possible improvements that can be made.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- David Mandala
- Priority:
- Medium
- Drafter:
- Michael Casadevall
- Direction:
- Approved
- Assignee:
- Michael Casadevall
- Definition:
- Approved
- Series goal:
- Accepted for natty
- Implementation:
-
Implemented
- Milestone target:
-
natty-alpha-1
- Started by
- Michael Casadevall
- Completed by
- Michael Casadevall
Whiteboard
Work Items (maverick-alpha-2):
[cjwatson] Review changed with cjwatson [1 day]: DONE
Implement generic fallback code in flash-kernel [2-3 days]: DONE
Work Items (ubuntu-
Implement new subarchitecture detection in libdebian-installer [1-2 day]: DONE
Work Items (ubuntu-11.04):
Have API change approved and merged [5-7 days]: DONE
Implement necessary changes to have base-installer to use new libd-i framework [1-2 days]: POSTPONED
Have new warning message about usage of generic fallback code approved and implemented [1 day]: POSTPONED
Confirm new warning message only triggers on unsupported hardware [1 day]: POSTPONED
[gruemaster]Test upgrade path [1 day]: DONE
[gruemaster]Test unsupported hardware [1 day]: DONE
Work Items
Dependency tree
* Blueprints in grey have been implemented.
