[meta-xilinx] ZC702 support in Xilinx meta-xilinx

[Elvis Dowson]

Hi Mike,

On Apr 23, 2013, at 3:23 PM, Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans at topic.nl> wrote:

> On 04/23/2013 09:19 AM, Elvis Dowson wrote:
>> 
>> Additionally while on this topic, any thoughts on how one would maintain different configurations for a board, using different kernel sources, e.g Xilinx and Analog Devices, and manage this in an easy way in a custom board layer and switch between them?
>> 
> 
> Normally settings like this are being used:
> 
> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel = "linux-adi"
> 
> You should provide a default in the board/machine configuration, and the user can pick another in local.conf or in the distro.conf.
> 
> I had both kernels in my BSP as well, but since the ADI kernel is just a merge of the xilinx kernel with the ADI drivers, there was no reason to ever use the Xilinx kernel directly, so I abandoned it. And later switched to my own fork of the kernel because Xilinx didn't accept any patches.

Ah, I forgot about that!!

Great, this way, I just need to create two kernel recipes, and then choose which one I want to include for a particular board.

Elvis Dowson