[OE-core] Cape Manager

[Denys Dmytriyenko]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 10:15:07AM +0200, Anders Darander wrote:
> * Robert Yang <liezhi.yang at windriver.com> [140630 05:47]:
> 
> 
> > On 06/30/2014 12:24 AM, Life Life wrote:
> > > Hello,
> 
> > > I'm trying build yocto based linux, My hardware is beaglebone black I
> > > successfull build system image. But I can't see capemanager. Beacuse my lcd is
> > > not work.
> 
> > Hello,
> 
> > The cape manager is in meta-ti layer:
> 
> > http://layers.openembedded.org/layerindex/branch/master/layer/meta-ti/
> 
> > Seems that we'd better add it to meta-yoco-bsp ?
> 
> Unless something has changed since I last looked at this, I don't think
> so. 
> 
> If I remember correctly, capemgr basically consists of a number of
> patches not in the mainline kernel (and also not in TI's staging
> kernel). I haven't checked it, by I doubt that we have them in the
> linux-yocto kernel. (Especially as the last time I checked it, you had
> to revert to a 3.8 (if I rember correctly, it might have been an even
> earlier kernel) kernel to get full capemgr support.
> 
> If this has changed, then it'd be interesting to know!

That is correct - capemgr was a patchset against 3.8. It is not yet available 
in mainline. It was developed and being adopted for the mainline by Pantelis 
Antoniou and the community, but since it's rather a complicated subsystem, it 
went through numerous revisions and changes, still not merged upstream though.

-- 
Denys