[oe] oe-core 2.6 kernel support

[Otavio Salvador]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Marco <koansoftware at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> after a lot of time spent trying to create my own oe-core BSP based on old
> recipes I have been using in oe-classic, I found that there is any BSP
> working with oe-core and using old kernels (< 3.0).
>
> Probably for most of you this is obsolete and irrelevant topic because
> everybody is focused on new CPUs (> Armv5)
>
> I avoid to discuss what I tried in older to create an oe-core/yocto BSP
> (using 2.6.30)  and I will focus on an example that anyone can easily
> verify.
>
> Paul had kindly pointed me to the meta-handheld stuff so I tried oe-core +
> meta-handheld and I built:
>  akita -> ok (3.2.32-git)
>  hx4700 -> ok (3.0.1)
>  h3600 -> fails (2.6.29)
>
> I wonder if it could be a gcc (4.7.2) issue with older kernels and moreover
> if anybody experienced this or has successfully built something with old
> kernels.
>
> Any hint would be greatly appreciated.

In meta-fsl-arm we support 2.6.35; we did include some patches for
newer GCC and GLibC support on it.

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