On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 07:14:52PM +0200, Cezary Rojewski wrote:
> On 2019-07-23 20:07, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:

> > - draw the line at "no new features" after e.g. 5.5 and "no new
> > platforms when SOF provides a solution". SOF was expected to reach
> > feature parity by the end of 2019 so it's not a random date I just made
> > up.

> While I can agree on the "no new features" line, the date is a loose
> subject. Honestly, I could've probably called first ~70-80 patches: "a fix".
> Validation team managed to mark half scenarios a failure immediately. Then
> developers were set loose. With enough motivation, we have managed to crash
> even the most simple scenarios. I do not call a folder with bunch of code
> not following any specification, design patter, lacking verification and
> testing and confirmed to be harmful a "driver". And thus, "new features"
> gets entirely different meaning when applied to /skylake.

If there's things that fix bugs then they won't be covered by any wind
down in new features so that's a separate thing whatever happens there.