[poky] kernel versions

[Richard Purdie]

On Mon, 2011-02-21 at 08:52 -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
> I have my own kernel recipes (historical reasons...) which I
> now have 2 versions of.  Some platforms have not yet been
> ported to the latest version and I need to keep using the
> older one for those platforms until the porting is complete.
> 
> Sadly, I can't get this to work.
> 
> Here's what I have
>    $ tree meta-amltd/packages/linux/
>      meta-amltd/packages/linux/
>      ├── linux-am_2.6.32.bb
>      ├── linux-am_2.6.37.bb
> 
>    $ tree meta-cobra3530p60/packages/linux/
>      meta-cobra3530p60/packages/linux/
>      ├── linux-am-2.6.32
>      │   └── cobra3530p60
>      │       ├── cobra3530p60.patch
>      │       └── defconfig
>      ├── linux-am_2.6.32.bbappend
> 
> I tried these settings in my machine/cobra3530p60
>    PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel = "linux-am"
>    PREFERRED_VERSION_virtual/kernel = "2.6.32"
> 
> However, it still wants to build version 2.6.37
> 
> What am I missing?  How can I force it to use the 2.6.32 version
> for this machine?

PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-am = "2.6.32"

?

Cheers,

Richard