[meta-xilinx] Extending linux-yocto for zynq via a bbappend

[Sipke Vriend]

Hi Philip,

>
>On Tuesday, 13 August 2013 2:39 AM, Philip Balister wrote
>
>I'm adding support for a custom board via a custom bsp layer. It uses
>the linux-yocto kernel from meta-xilinx.
>

Great.

>One question I had is the meta-xilinx bbappend add a $MACHINE specific
>file to the kernel recipe. I can deal with this in my bbappend, but I am
>wondering if this is a bad thing since it is very possible to use
>several bsp's, all using the linux-yocto kernel via bbappends. I guess I
>need to ask some people how multiple bbappends work in this scenario.
>

Once you have a better idea of what issues this can cause and/or if it is 
incorrect practice let's see how we need to address it.

>Also, is there a git repo with all the patches applied somewhere? I have
>a custom driver I need to add to the kernel and have a conflict to
>resolve. The easiest way for me to do this is just rebase against a
>branch with all the Xilinx patches applied.
>

No. The patches were generated once to bridge the diffs between yocto
kernel and linux-xlnx kernel for the given source revision in recipe.

Regards
Sipke

>Philip
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