[poky] [patch] linux-yocto-rt_3.10.bbappend recipe

[Darren Hart]

On Tue, 2013-11-05 at 22:25 -0500, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 6:06 PM, Eric Keller <keller.eric at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > could you consider applying this patch so that we are able to build rt
> > kernel for genericx86(-64)?
> 
> Send a patch against the main linux-yocto-rt recipe (not via this
> attached bbappend
> patch), and we can have a look.

Bruce, the genericx86 BSPs are not in oe-core, they are in
meta-yocto-bsp, so the bbappend is the right place to do this.

> 
> But adding the support is something that you can easily carry in your
> own layer,
> since by adding the support to the main recipe, we are implicitly agreeing that
> I'll build and boot test it with each update. And I don't have a large
> objection to that,
> but I add new supported boards with caution, in particular genericx86, since it
> doesn't have a tightly controlled platform or set of drivers.

For context, I met with Eric and suggested he send this patch. I would
be adding it myself if he didn't as genericx86* absolutely must support
PREEMPT_RT IMNSHO.

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Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Linux Kernel