[OE-core] [PATCH 0/4] linux-yocto: consolidated pull request

[Richard Purdie]

On Wed, 2012-12-05 at 10:06 -0600, Tom Zanussi wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-12-05 at 15:48 +0000, Burton, Ross wrote:
> > On 21 November 2012 21:32, Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield at windriver.com> wrote:
> > > atom-pc should probably be using the 3.4 kernel, but that's a
> > > question for Darren/Tom/Nitin (so I've added them to the cc), since
> > > there may be a reason (with respect to graphics) as to why it is on
> > > 3.0.
> > 
> > Ping Darren/Tom/Nitin.
> > 
> > atom-pc is certainly lagging behind by still being on 3.0, and I can't
> > see any reason why we'd want to stick with 3.0 for graphics.  In fact
> > as the most common graphics driver used on atom-pc is a i965 we want a
> > modern kernel as that is where the development is.
> > 
> 
> I don't know of any technical reason for it to still be at 3.0.
> 
> Until recently all of the 'core machines' were at 3.0 and probably the
> assumption was that whoever upgraded those in the past would also be
> upgrading atom-pc - has that changed?.
> 
> So who does own the core machines and if that doesn't cover atom-pc,
> then who owns that?

As I understood it, WR owns the non-IA core machines, you (as in the
Intel team) own the IA ones, namely atom-pc.

Cheers,

Richard