[OE-core] Cape Manager

[Life Life]

is it possible  lcd cape support without capemgr ?


2014-07-01 23:01 GMT+03:00 Denys Dmytriyenko <denis at denix.org>:

> 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.
>
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