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[Andy Green <andy.green@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/22/2011 10:21 PM, Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:10:31 +0100, Andy Green<andy.green@xxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > Android kernel commandline wants some android-specific tokens, but a
> > non-android kernel should just ignore them, subject to testing.
>
> In this case it looks very much like something that Ubuntu will pick up
> too?

I don't think Ubuntu want android-related stuff coming in their distro 
generally, although this probably won't faze them too much

At the moment it's just

androidboot.console=ttyO2

but later there might be more funnies for Android that could conflict, 
eg, omapdss needs twiddling for Android use.

> > Zach's right they boot.scrs should ideally be independent for Android or
> > Ubuntu... I realize it's a bit late to discover that but we literally
> > are just able to make a meaningful Android LT kernel for the first time
> > these last days.
>
> They can be separate, but there has no need for them to be separate so
> far. If this is something that is Android-only then we can make that
> split now.
>
> If it is Android-only then I will also need a comment that I can put in
> the source to explain why so that in the future we can maintain the two
> different configs.

Well in the future we will meet the issue that different SGX API 
versions may be needed for Android or Ubuntu, driven by availability of 
userland for each.  At the moment you can get v4403 recent userland for 
both Android and Ubuntu and so the kernel situation is very (but not 
entirely) similar.  But TI told us that was pretty much a one-off.

-Andy

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