[oe] [PATCH] netvista 8363/N2200 machine support

[Tom Rini]

On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 01:10:55AM +0200, Mateusz Kijowski wrote:
> 2009/6/6 Tom Rini <trini at embeddedalley.com>:
> > On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 11:08:09PM +0200, Mateusz Kijowski wrote:
> >
> >> This is my first patch for OpenEmbedded, but I've been lurking this
> >> list for quite a while. I suppose I could merge linux-netvista8363 recipe
> >> to linux recipe but I am not sure if it's a better apporach when the latest
> >> bootable kernel version is not recent (2.6.24.7). Please be gentle :-)
> >
> > Yes, similar to how the other machines, this should append a patch and
> > set DEFAULT_PREFERENCE_machname = "1"
> 
> All right, defconfig and patching is pretty easy, I suppose I can
> write my do_hack_image() hook function similar to do_compulab_image(),
> but I'm not sure how would I override do_deploy() and do_install()
> only for this machine.
> 
> Perhaps this is a wrong approach - I am overriding those because I
> want to put the kernel in an unusual place (/) under an unusual name
> (kernel.2x00). This is necessary for this machine to boot. do_deploy()
> is an obvious candidate to be merged with do_hack_image()
> 
> Any insight and suggestions is welcome.

I'd think do_install_machinename will override, but it's been a while
since I've tried something like that.

-- 
Tom Rini