[oe] [PATCH 2/3] Add chumby falconwing kernel recipe

[Sean Cross]

On Aug 20, 2010, at 5:36 AM, Eric Bénard wrote:

> Hi Sean,
> 
> Le 19/08/2010 21:21, Sean Cross a écrit :
>> On Aug 19, 2010, at 1:32 AM, Koen Kooi wrote:
>>> Can't this me merged into the .26.28 kernel recipe?
>>> 
>> I can do that, but the resulting patch is 28 megabytes. I think
>> that's a bit big.
>> 
>> It's Freescale's kernel patch, which supports all of their
>> processors, not just the i.MX233.  My guess is that nobody's tried to
>> get these patches into the kernel upstream.
>> 
>> The resulting patch I get is mostly an additive patch, as I count
>> 800,000 added lines in the patch, and 1200 removed lines.
>> 
> maybe using Freecale git server with the right revision will allow you
> to only have one smaller patch which adds support of your board :
> http://opensource.freescale.com/git?p=imx/linux-2.6-imx.git;a=summary

I'll work on doing that.  But I don't see any other Linux kernel recipes that use this repo.  What's the advantage of using this GIT server and including a patch against it, rather than pulling the chumby tgz file and not having any patches?


Sean