[meta-freescale] Fwd: Adding -rt support for kernel
Eric Nelson
eric.nelson at boundarydevices.com
Fri Jun 20 09:15:54 PDT 2014
Thanks Jacob,
On 06/20/2014 09:03 AM, Jacob Kroon wrote:
> Forgot to cc mailing list.
>
And I followed your lead ;)
> /Jacob
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: *Jacob Kroon* <jacob.kroon at gmail.com <mailto:jacob.kroon at gmail.com>>
> Date: Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 6:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [meta-freescale] Adding -rt support for kernel
> To: Eric Nelson <eric.nelson at boundarydevices.com
> <mailto:eric.nelson at boundarydevices.com>>
>
>
> Hi Eric,
>
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Eric Nelson
> <eric.nelson at boundarydevices.com
> <mailto:eric.nelson at boundarydevices.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Based on some customer requests, we've applied the "-rt" patches
> to our kernel trees and pushed branches like this to our Github
> tree:
>
> https://github.com/boundarydevices/linux-imx6/tree/boundary-imx_3.10.17_1.0.0_ga-rt
>
> This makes it pretty simple for someone who's used git to build
> these kernels outside of Yocto, but is painful for integration
> into a Yocto-based build.
>
> For the "linux-imx" kernel, the package "linux-imx-rt" recipe
> defines a new variant of the kernel, but I don't understand how
> this can be used in a build.
>
> In other words, do you specify
> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel="linux-imx-rt"
> or
> PREFERRED_VERSION_virtual/kernel_linux-imx="rt-3.10.17"
>
> Please advise,
>
>
> For using the real-time patched kernel, I have
>
> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel_mx6 = "linux-imx-rt"
>
> in my distro.conf, but plain
>
> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel = "linux-imx-rt"
>
> should work just aswell. Is this not working for you ?
>
I haven't tried it. I'm just trying to understand in order to
provide a similar "linux-boundary-rt".
I think this gives me enough to go on.
Regards,
Eric
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