[oe] Broken kernel recipes

[Tom Rini]

On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 10:57:35AM +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 19:11 -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> > As part of testing meta-toolchain-sbox builds on different arches, I
> > found that sbrsh, on ARM, brings in both the 2.6 kernel for the MACHINE
> > in question, as well as a 2.4 kernel.  In the case of the 2.4 kernel, it
> > first picks up poodle-kernel-2.4-embedix.bb on nokia800, which doesn't
> > work as it wants gcc-2.95, which doesn't exist.  Can I move the
> > following support to packages/obsolete/linux/ ?
> > corgi-kernel-2.4-embedix.bb
> > husky-kernel-2.4-embedix.bb
> > openzaurus-pxa_2.4.18-rmk7-pxa3-embedix20031107.bb
> > poodle255-kernel-2.4-embedix.bb
> > poodle-kernel-2.4-embedix.bb
> > shepherd-kernel-2.4-embedix.bb
> > openzaurus-pxa27x_2.4.20-rmk2-embedix20050602.bb
> > openzaurus-sa_2.4.18-rmk7-pxa3-embedix20030509.bb
> 
> These are needed for sharprom-compat. The more interesting question is
> why they were being brought in - the 2.6 version should provide
> everything they do and have preference?

What's over in http://bugs.openembedded.net/attachment.cgi?id=13197
matches what I was seeing (search for "NOTE: selecting linux-rp to
satisfy virtual/kernel due to PREFERRED_PROVIDERS").  The 2.6 recipe
gets picked as expected, then bitbake adds in the 2.4 recipe too.  I was
seeing this with up to date bitbake-1.8 svn.

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
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Tom Rini