[linux-yocto] [PATCH] meta: add genericx86 BSP

[Bruce Ashfield]

ping again.

I still haven't seen an updated, an reposted merge of this with common-pc.
Did my mail client manage to drop it ?

Bruce

On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Bruce Ashfield
> <bruce.ashfield at windriver.com> wrote:
>> On 13-08-21 01:33 PM, Darren Hart wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, 2013-08-21 at 17:57 +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
>>>>
>>>> This BSP aims at supporting a broad range of Intel platforms, from Atom
>>>> up to
>>>> Xeon.  As such the kernel includes a range of drivers, and the
>>>> corresponding
>>>> machine configuration in meta-yocto-bsp includes a range of user-space
>>>> drivers.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton at intel.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>   .../bsp/genericx86/genericx86-standard.scc         |   28
>>>> ++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>   1 file changed, 28 insertions(+)
>>>>   create mode 100644
>>>> meta/cfg/kernel-cache/bsp/genericx86/genericx86-standard.scc
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/meta/cfg/kernel-cache/bsp/genericx86/genericx86-standard.scc
>>>> b/meta/cfg/kernel-cache/bsp/genericx86/genericx86-standard.scc
>>>> new file mode 100644
>>>> index 0000000..94d8ca7
>>>> --- /dev/null
>>>> +++ b/meta/cfg/kernel-cache/bsp/genericx86/genericx86-standard.scc
>>>> @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
>>>> +define KMACHINE genericx86
>>>> +define KTYPE standard
>>>> +define KARCH i386
>>>> +
>>>> +# TODO: long-term move away from common-pc?
>>>> +include bsp/common-pc/common-pc-standard.scc
>>>> +branch atom-pc
>>>> +
>>>> +include cfg/x86.scc
>>>> +include cfg/boot-live.scc
>>>> +
>>>> +include features/power/intel.scc
>>>> +
>>>> +# Ideally all of these below would be modules instead of built-in.
>>>> +
>>>> +# common-pc brings in the other USB controllers
>>>> +include features/usb/xhci-hcd.scc
>>>
>>>
>>> And should really bring this one in too...
>>
>>
>> Agreed!
>>
>>
>>>
>>>> +
>>>> +# Intel ethernet, old and new Intel wireless.
>>>> +include features/rfkill/rfkill.scc
>>>> +include features/intel-e1xxxx/intel-e1xxxx.scc
>>>> +include features/iwlwifi/iwlwifi.scc
>>>> +include features/iwlegacy/iwlegacy.scc
>>>> +
>>>> +# Intel Gen and GMA500. common-pc provides Vesa framebuffer.
>>>> +include features/i915/i915.scc
>>>> +include features/drm-gma500/drm-gma500.scc
>>>> +include features/drm-gma500/drm-gma3600.scc
>>>
>>>
>>> This is really a fairly small change. Any reason this shouldn't just be
>>> an update to common-pc? Is there a conceptual difference here?
>>
>>
>> I'd like to see them just merge. They are both targeting a similar set
>> of commodity hardware platforms. Sure, qemux86 will pick these up as
>> well, but as qemu gains more functionality we can use more and more of
>> the options.
>
> ping. Did we collectively slip on this ? I was just trying to debug a
> serial 8250
> issue, and realized that none of the generic x86 parts have merged.
>
> Bruce
>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Bruce
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>
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