[OE-core] kernels

[Koen Kooi]

Op 20 jul 2011, om 17:42 heeft Bruce Ashfield het volgende geschreven:

> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Bruce Ashfield
> <bruce.ashfield at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Phil Blundell <philb at gnu.org> wrote:
>>> 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?
>> 
>> It varies, and the variables are many, so I can answer this in several ways.
> 
> Following up on my own email. I'm just about to push out the 3.0
> kernel support / changes, so I'm seeing the light at the end of the tunnel
> and recalled that this is still hanging a bit.
> 
> Is there anything tangible you wanted me to do here ?  Create an example ?
> Write a short howto  .. or something else ?

A guide to make your own setup that isn't based on linux-yocto but which does work with the linux-yocto bbclass?