[OE-core] kernels

[Bruce Ashfield]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net> wrote:
>
> 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?

That's reasonable. Once I get the imminent kernel uprev out the door, I'll
focus on something along these lines.

Bruce

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