[OE-core] kernels

[Phil Blundell]

On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 09:51 -0400, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Phil Blundell <pb at pbcl.net> wrote:
> > The other day I was working on a BSP layer for a fairly generic i586
> > system and I was struck by the fact that we don't appear to have any
> > vanilla kernel recipes in oe-core.  I had sort of expected that, to get
> > a standard bzImage out, I would just need to ship an appropriate
> > defconfig in my layer and everything else would "just work".
> 
> Hmm. Perhaps it isn't documented clearly enough as such, but the linux-yocto
> kernel base can work in this mode, since that was a design goal of
> 1.0.
> 
> You pick a branch, throw in a config fragment (or defconfig if you really
> want)  and build. The base branches in the tree are generic enough to
> sort a range of boards out of the box, and should form a base.

Okay, cool.  I'll give it a go and see how I get on.

Is there a description anywhere of what the functional differences are
between the code in linux-yocto git and the upstream kernel.org tree?

p.