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

[Khem Raj]

On 8/23/07, Philip Balister <philip at balister.org> wrote:
> Is there any reason why you marked the linux-omap1_2.6.22 with
> DEFAULT_PREFERENCE = "-1" and removed the git kernels

must be removed an oversight on my part.

> DEFAULT_PREFERENCE="-1"? I am guessing these are testing artifacts and
> am setting the git kernel to -1 and removing the DEFAULT_PREFERENCE from
> 2.6.22.
>
> Other than that, the patch looks good.
>
> Philip
>
> Khem Raj wrote:
> > 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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