[oe] RFC: Fix for bug 1744 and some restructuring of omap kernel bb files.

[Khem Raj]

Hi Philip

Thanks for looking at it.

On 8/22/07, Philip Balister <philip at balister.org> wrote:
> I have given it a quick look, and it looks reasonable. It appears to
> drop OABI support, which I think is OK, except for the celinux distro
> (not sure).

Infact it does not. Default config file has EABI disabled in
defconfig. The logic in linux-omap.inc enables it if it detects an
EABI capable toolchain.

>
> The only real concern I have is that we would like to move to the
> linux.inc/linux_2.6.x.bb style of kernel bb files. Should we push this,
> or wait until we can convert the omap/davinci kernels to linux.inc? I
> shouldn't even look at this until September ...

I would say one step at a time. This patch is big enough so we should
go towards it incrementally

>
> Philip
>
> Khem Raj wrote:
> > Hi Koen et al.
> >
> > I have been looking into omap structure of late and found that it was
> > hard to add a new machine to same kernel build without some
> > duplication. So I went ahead and tried to fix it. Attached patch also
> > fixes bug 1744.
> >
> > I have moved the defconf files to kernel-<version>/$MACHINE folder and
> > I expect that we add machine specific patches if needed here too.
> >
> > I have built omap5912osk and omap2430sdp machine kernels with this
> > change and they built and worked ok.
> >
> > However I have also made changes to other omap related files which I
> > believe I correct but it would be helpful if someone could test them.
> >
> > I havent changed the old kernel bb files. If this looks ok and
> > applicable I can do that too.
> >
> > Is it ok?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > -Khem
> >
> >
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