[meta-ti] poor performance of OpenEmbedded on, BeagleBoneBlack compared to Debian

[Denys Dmytriyenko]

On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 02:50:03PM +0000, Mikhail Zakharov wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 8:59 PM, Peter A. Bigot <pab at pabigot.com> wrote:
> 
> > One anomaly I've found is the CPU frequency range.  On debian we have:
> >
> >    debian at beaglebone:~$ cat 
> > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies
> >    300000 600000 800000 1000000
> >
> > while on OE we have:
> >
> >    root at beaglebone:~# cat 
> > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies
> >    300000 600000 720000 800000
> 
> Stock yocto-bsp is missing a few things that can be found in Robert
> Nelson's patchset for 3.14 linux kernel.
> 
> There are lots of other functionality that is missing from yocto-bsp 
> kernel for Beaglebone. I suggest you take at the following repos and
> scavenge for what you need :P

First of all, this is meta-ti mailing list for the corresponding BSP. That's 
what Peter was asking for, comparing to Robert's Debian and Yocto reference 
BSPs, not the other way around.

Second, Yocto reference BSP is that way for a reason - it's a reference BSP 
done with pure mainline kernel and u-boot components w/o any patching on top. 
That's its entire purpose. For anything else special, including performance 
tweaks, there are other BSPs available. If there is an issue with performance 
in meta-ti, we'll investigate it and try to match with Robert's BSP.

BTW, why would you base your own BSP on the Yocto reference one - isn't it too 
much work to patch it up to your liking?

-- 
Denys