[OE-core] Where is atom-pc.conf hiding?

[Richard Purdie]

On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 15:44 -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> On 06/13/2011 03:35 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 15:10 -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> >> On 06/13/2011 02:30 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> >>> On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 22:36 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
> >>>> Op 13 jun 2011, om 22:28 heeft Saul Wold het volgende geschreven:
> >>>>
> >>>>> On 06/13/2011 11:31 AM, Koen Kooi wrote:
> >>>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Khem was asking if I could reproduce the recent x86 breakage he was seeing[1] and I ran into another bug:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> koen at dominion:/OE/tentacle/sources/meta-intel$ git blame meta-n450/conf/machine/n450.conf  | grep atom
> >>>>>> 158f88d7 (Saul Wold   2011-01-03 15:33:52 -0800  6) require conf/machine/atom-pc.conf
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> meta-yocto seems to be the place you need to look!
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I hope that the layering tools can help to detect and inform folks of this like of dependency.
> >>>>
> >>>> Isn't meta-yocto supposed to a the integration layer with no new
> >>>> parts? I can't use meta-yocto since it has conflicting beagleboard
> >>>> stuff in it, which means that meta-intel is now broken for me as well.
> >>>> That surely isn't the intended plan?!?!
> >>>
> >>> The plan on public record is that atom-pc moves to meta-intel as soon as
> >>> the layer tooling comes online and meta-yocto becomes its own repo
> >>> (which at present its not but its certainly the intent).
> >>
> >> Until then, and even afterwards can we please get some testing of
> >> non-poky builds done?  I know the autobuilder is full but can't we toss
> >> a few things onto a personal box and try that a few times a week?
> > 
> > Sure, the more people testing the various combinations the better!
> 
> I fear I'm not being clear.  Can You, Saul and maybe other folks making
> frequent submissions and are at times more poky-oriented than not, do
> this as well?  While I'd love the world I'd settle for a bunch of -g's
> to catch obvious problems and a console-image or something..

Since you're highlighting me personally here, I do test a variety of
things periodically. I only have access to one desktop machine and one
Linux laptop so just like everyone else the testing I can physically do
is limited.

I also merge a ton of changes from various people and rely at some level
on trust of those people to have tested changes. I know Saul also does a
lot of testing of various combinations. It might not always be the
combination you personally want but its certainly better than no testing
at all.

OE is getting a number of new computer resources soon thanks to the
Linux Foundation and testing OE-Core is on Tom King's todo list. Yocto
is also stepping up and doing a lot of testing. It is hardware limited
and also looking to increase its resources which is planned and
happening, albeit slower than we'd like in an ideal world.

So on the one hand I do understand your concern. I'm personally and
Yocto are doing the best we can. On the other I'd suggest if testing
certain combinations is this important to you (or Mentor?), stepping up
and helping with the testing would be *much* appreciated and it isn't
the sole responsibility of myself or Saul.

Cheers,

Richard