[poky] [PATCH 0/1] poky-tiny.conf: set PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto-tiny to 4.4

[Bruce Ashfield]

On 2016-04-10 10:40 PM, Robert Yang wrote:
>
>
> On 04/11/2016 09:52 AM, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>> On 2016-04-10 10:22 AM, Robert Yang wrote:
>>> The following changes since commit
>>> 778121ab844af623a215430ba579a5fb3947928b:
>>>
>>>    local.conf.sample: Make it possible to override EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES
>>> (2016-04-09 23:00:46 +0100)
>>>
>>> are available in the git repository at:
>>>
>>>    git://git.pokylinux.org/poky-contrib rbt/kernel
>>>    http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=rbt/kernel
>>>
>>> Robert Yang (1):
>>>    poky-tiny.conf: set PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto-tiny to 4.4
>>>
>>
>> Can you provide some bootlogs ? Size information, etc ? When we jump
>> this between kernel versions, we need to log some sort of information
>> about functionality and the size of the image.
>>
>> I've been carrying this support forward, but in 4.4, we did change
>> some of the kernel configs, so it would be good to see what sort of
>> size delta we are talking about.
>
> * Size:
> $ du -s tmp/deploy/images/qemux86/bzImage*
> 2664
> tmp/deploy/images/qemux86/bzImage--4.4.3+git0+770996a263_73481a3abd-r0-qemux86-20160411015757.bin
>
> 2572
> tmp/deploy/images/qemux86/bzImage--4.1.18+git0+b9023d4c8f_f5b08e95bc-r0-qemux86-20160411022834.bin
>
>
> We can see that 4.1 and 4.4 are nearly the same (92K different).

Excellent. That is good news.

>
> And:
> $ runqemu qemux86 ramfs
> works well. Please see the boot logs in the attachment.

perfect. Thanks!

>
> And poky-tiny only supports qemux86 + cpio.gz atm, I've filed two
> enhancements
> for YP 2.2 to support more machines and fs types:
>

As long as it doesn't add too much extra functionality, it makes sense.
Tiny turns pretty much everything off on purpose, since it forms a
baseline that we do expect users to extend or add their own configs. It
is much easier to add, then to subtract.

Thanks for the extra details here. As long as RP is willing to merge
this patch for the 2.1 release, I have no objections.

Bruce

> https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9428
>
> https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9429
>
> // Robert
>
>>
>> Bruce
>>
>>>   meta-poky/conf/distro/poky-tiny.conf | 2 +-
>>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>
>>