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

[Darren Hart]

On 12/05/2012 08:27 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> 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.

Agreed, it should be updated. Tom, Nitin, and I will discuss and select
an owner.


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Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Technical Lead - Linux Kernel