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

[Khem Raj]

> On Apr 17, 2016, at 7:47 PM, Robert Yang <liezhi.yang at windriver.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On 04/11/2016 09:24 PM, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Hi RP,
> 
> What's you opinion, please ?

We should bump to 4.4 and another patch which limits the linux-yocto to qemux86 only
should be applied too so we can use poky-tiny beyond qemux86

> 
> // Robert
> 
> 
>> 
>> 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(-)
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>> 
>> 
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