[yocto] [meta-raspberrypi][PATCH] linux-raspberrypi-base.bbclass: allow -rt kernels

[Andreas Müller]

On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 7:37 PM, Andrei Gherzan <andrei at gherzan.ro> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 06:27:32PM +0000, Andrei Gherzan wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 08:37:09PM -0500, Trevor Woerner wrote:
>> > On Mon 2016-11-28 @ 03:16:11 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > On Nov 28, 2016, at 11:07 AM, Trevor Woerner <twoerner at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > If the PREEMPT_RT patch is applied, the kernel version becomes, say,
>> > > > 4.4.32-rt43 (instead of 4.4.32). This confuses the version handling code in
>> > > > this class. Update how the version string is processed so that trailing rt-
>> > > > strings are properly handled, in addition to handling the existing cases.
>> > > >
>> > >
>> > > This probably will solve the issue I see with 4.9-rcX recipes that are in my tree on kraj/master
>> >
>> > I'm not familiar with the issue you're seeing, but the existing and new code
>> > are looking for 3 int()s separated by periods. If your recipes have the string
>> > "4.9-rcX" then I'm guessing there might still be an issue since the third
>> > int() will be "-rcX" in your case. If this is true, you'll need to take a look
>> > at where "int(min_ver[2])" is used further down in that bbclass file.
>>
>> I agreed this is not the best implementation of this. We should only get
>
> agree*
>
>> the version using a regex that would get X.Y.Z-R with an optional Z and
>> R.
>>
>> --
>> Andrei Gherzan
> --
> Andrei Gherzan
>
Question is if this version dance in get_dts is still necessary: We
don't have kernel < 3.18 or kernel 4.4.<6 around. Why not use what is
set in KERNEL_DEVICETREE?

Andreas