[OE-core] [daisy-backport][PATCH 0/6] Daisy backports

[Otavio Salvador]

Hello,

(Adding Denys in Cc)

On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Saul Wold <sgw at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On 05/22/2014 11:27 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Those are the changes I have in my local backport branch which I run
>> on top of 'sgw/daisy' branch.
>>
>> Chen Qi (2):
>>    tcf-agent: add systemd support
>>    gdb: add PACKAGECONFIG for babeltrace
>>
> These are already in my branch

Good.

>> Denys Dmytriyenko (3):
>>    cryptodev-linux: move to recipes-kernel to be shared with module and
>>      tests
>>    cryptodev-linux: create common .inc file to be shared by module and
>>      tests
>>    cryptodev-tests: recipe for cryptodev test suite based on OpenSSL
>>
> I have pulled these for testing, but we don't normally enable new
> functionality in point releases.  I would like to get a clear justification
> as to why these are needed to be back-ported.
>
> Please provide more details on the cryptodev functionality and why it should
> be backported.

We need those to use crypto support in some SoC as is the case for
Freescale (in meta-fsl-arm) and TI (in meta-ti). Unfortunately this
has been sent late in the release but with the drop of ocf-linux it
makes sense to provide cryptodev in my opinion.

Denys?

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