Main Inclusion Report for ecosconfig-imx

Requirements

1. Availability: http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/r/redboot-imx; available for armel

2. Rationale:

   • a bootloader needed on the imx51 Babbage board; needed for live images.

3. Security:

   • CVE entries: 0 for ecosconfig, 1 for ecos in 2006, but didn't affect RedBoot

   • Secunia history: None

   • No binaries running as root or suid/sgid.
   • No daemons.
   • Can use the network to download images over TFTP/HTTP, but does not use it by default, and can only access to local LAN (routing is not supported)
   • Processes the binaries of linux and its ram disk, as well as the flash map, and configuration partition
   • No source code review performed.

4. Quality assurance:

   • RedBoot has its own internal configuration partition; no config files

   • No debconf questions asked
   • No Debian package.
   • Upstream for this package (Freescale Semiconductors) is calm.
   • No upstream bug tracker.

   • Hardware: imxXX series SoCs. Currently only the imx51 is supported.

     • - The currently only supported target is the imx51-babbage board; but there may be addition targets added
   • No test suite.

5. UI standards:

   • No user-visible UI; there is a command line on the serial console however.

6. Standards compliance:

   • FHS, Debian Policy compliance

   • Debian library packaging guide standards compliance

   • Packaging system: debhelper
   • Patch system: dpatch

7. Dependencies:

   • tcl-dev, tk-dev, econsconfig
   • All build-deps except ecosconfig are in main. ecosconfig has an outstanding MIR.

8. Maintenance:

   • This is a low maintenance package; it will only have to be touched if a new upstream release is given by Freescale
   • The Ubuntu Mobile Team is responsible for this package; they are Ubuntu developers.

9. Background information:

   • None.

10. Internationalization:

    • No GUI apps.

Reviewers

MIR bug: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/redboot-imx/+bug/345294