[OE-core] [PATCH 0/4] linux-yocto: consolidated pull request
Tom Zanussi
tom.zanussi at intel.com
Wed Dec 5 16:57:14 UTC 2012
On Wed, 2012-12-05 at 16:27 +0000, 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.
>
OK, yeah, I anyway had just assumed it was WR for the core machines:
commit f08b8c96402cd2b1e939f1babbc002d630fbf274
Author: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield at windriver.com>
Date: Fri Aug 19 00:37:08 2011 -0400
meta-yocto: atom-pc/mpc8315e-rdb change preferred version to 3.0
Updating two more yocto hardware reference platforms to use the
3.0 kernel by default.
But I see that Darren had done the previous upgrade:
commit 622fb696a6fc9eab991a5f412eb28e2ff949a32b
Author: Darren Hart <dvhart at linux.intel.com>
Date: Fri May 6 12:12:50 2011 -0700
atom-pc: use linux-yocto (2.6.37) kernel
Tested boot, network, sato desktop, amixer, and audio playback on a
Toshiba
NB305 netbook.
And it does make sense for Intel to own the atom-pc, it's just never
been clearly stated unless I missed the discussion.
Tom
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
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