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

[Darren Hart]

On Thu, 2013-11-07 at 13:38 -0500, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> On 13-11-07 01:35 PM, Darren Hart wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Ah yes. Right you are.
> 
> >
> >>
> >> 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.
> 
> Then I assume you'll be taking all the testing of it as well ? The
> patch as it stands is still not properly formatted, but that's a
> minor 'nit.

Yes, this needs to be part of our QA.

Eric, please have a look at the docs on
create-pull-request/send-pull-request or just using "git send-email" to
get your patches out in the appropriate format.

> 
> We should have cc'd the poky list on this as well, since it actually
> isn't any changes to linux-yocto itself to support the type.

Indeed it should have been. Takes some experience to get things to the
right list :-)

> 
> Bruce
> 
> >
> 

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