Re: [PATCH 0/1][linux-yocto] Remove Cedartrail Machine

[Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@intel.com>]

On Mon, 2013-02-11 at 22:02 -0800, Sean Liming wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: yocto-bounces@yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto-
> > bounces@yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Liu, Song
> > Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 1:25 PM
> > To: Chris Tapp
> > Cc: Darren Hart; Yocto Discussion Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: [yocto] [PATCH 0/1][linux-yocto] Remove Cedartrail Machine
> > 
> > Thanks for the reply, Chris! Feel free to let us know if you have any
> > questions. Hope your project will go well.
> > 
> > Song
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chris Tapp [mailto:opensource@keylevel.com]
> > Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 1:17 PM
> > To: Liu, Song
> > Cc: Bodke, Kishore K; Bruce Ashfield; Darren Hart; Saxena, Rahul; Zanussi,
> > Tom; Yocto Discussion Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: [yocto] [PATCH 0/1][linux-yocto] Remove Cedartrail Machine
> > 
> > Hi Song / Kishore,
> > 
> > On 11 Feb 2013, at 18:47, Liu, Song wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi Chris,
> > >
> > > Intel is still supporting critical fixes for the Cedar Trail BSP on
> Yocto Project
> > 1.3 release. If you need additional support for your project, I can
> connect you
> > with some Intel sales/support people who can help. At the same time, would
> > you be able to share more information about your project with me? It will
> > help when I ask them for additional support.
> > 
> > Thanks, that's good news.
> > 
> > The only slight down side from my perspective is we won't get the benefits
> > from 1.4 (and future) improvements. However, it will give me an excuse to
> > move the hardware on as new platforms become available ;-)
> > 
> > 
> > > Song
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Chris Tapp [mailto:opensource@keylevel.com]
> > > Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2013 1:33 AM
> > > To: Bodke, Kishore K
> > > Cc: bruce.ashfield@windriver.com; dvhart@linux.intel.com; Saxena,
> > > Rahul; Liu, Song; Zanussi, Tom; linux-yocto@yoctoproject.org;
> > > yocto@yoctoproject.org
> > > Subject: Re: [yocto] [PATCH 0/1][linux-yocto] Remove Cedartrail
> > > Machine
> > >
> > >
> > > On 8 Feb 2013, at 23:18, kishore.k.bodke@intel.com wrote:
> > >
> > >> From: Kishore Bodke <kishore.k.bodke@intel.com>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> This patch set is to remove the Cedartail Machine from
> > >> Linux-yocto-3.4 Kernel.
> > >> Cedartrail BSP will not be supported for Yocto 1.4 Release.
> > >
> > > Hi Kishore,
> > >
> > > Are there any plans to bring support back in? We recently committed a
> > project to using this BSP for the Intel DN2800MT...
> > >
> > >> Also Please remove the standard/cedartrail branch.
> > >>
> > >> Please pull into linux-yocto-3.4/meta branch.
> > >>
> > >> Thanks
> > >> Kishore.
> > >>
> > >> The following changes since commit
> > f697e099bc76d5df3a307a5bc0cc25021dd6dfe0:
> > >>
> > >> meta: bump to v3.4.28, rt-40 (2013-02-04 00:14:21 -0500)
> > >>
> > >> are available in the git repository at:
> > >>
> > >> git://git.pokylinux.org/linux-yocto-contrib kishore/cedartrail_remove
> > >> http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit.cgi/linux-yocto-contrib/log/?h=kishore/
> > >> c
> > >> edartrail_remove
> > >>
> > >> Kishore Bodke (1):
> > >> meta: Remove Cedartrail Machine
> > >>
> > >> .../bsp/cedartrail/cedartrail-preempt-rt.scc       |   13 ------
> > >> .../bsp/cedartrail/cedartrail-standard.scc         |    8 ----
> > >> .../cfg/kernel-cache/bsp/cedartrail/cedartrail.cfg |   46
> --------------------
> > >> .../cfg/kernel-cache/bsp/cedartrail/cedartrail.scc |   15 -------
> > >> 4 files changed, 82 deletions(-)
> > >> delete mode 100755
> > >> meta/cfg/kernel-cache/bsp/cedartrail/cedartrail-preempt-rt.scc
> > >> delete mode 100755
> > >> meta/cfg/kernel-cache/bsp/cedartrail/cedartrail-standard.scc
> > >> delete mode 100755
> > >> meta/cfg/kernel-cache/bsp/cedartrail/cedartrail.cfg
> > >> delete mode 100644
> > >> meta/cfg/kernel-cache/bsp/cedartrail/cedartrail.scc
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> 1.7.9.5
> > >>
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> > > Chris Tapp
> > >
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> > >
> > >
> > >
> > 
> > Chris Tapp
> > 
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> 
> I haven't looked at the changes. Out of curiosity, is it possible to add a
> BSP back in for a new Yocto Project version? What would be the challenge?
> 

It probably wouldn't take much to bring it back - basically the pvr
graphics driver, which I assume is one of the most important features of
this BSP for users, is stuck at kernel version 3.0.  If everything else
stayed the same, forward-porting the GPL'ed kernel portion of the driver
would be all that would be needed to get it working again.  We've done
that routinely for other drivers such as EMGD, so I don't think that
would be too big a deal.

The bigger problem is who would support it going forward.  I could do
the initial work to fix it up (if I had the hardware, which I don't - I
may get a cedartrail netbook in March, so that ) (or we could take
patches) but I wouldn't have the time to support it after that.

If someone stepped up to support it, though, that would make a
difference in keeping it around in 1.4 and beyond, I think.

Tom

> Regards,
> 
> Sean Liming
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