[RFC] purge recipes/linux-kexecboot and move to recipes/linux

[RFC] purge recipes/linux-kexecboot and move to recipes/linux

[Andrea Adami]

Hello,

I plan to move soon the kernel recipes of linux-kexecboot in the
standard recipes/linux location.

Being that the kernel directory is already overpopulated I was
thinking to remove some obsolete versions before moving the recipes.
I know that obsolete != unused, that's why I'm asking:

Who is using linux-kexecboot kernels?
Which machines apart some Zaurus are needing older 2.6.2x kernels?

If it's only about Zaurus I'd *only* keep an older version (still to
decide if 2.6.24 or 2.6.26) for a while and the latest 2.6.34.

Please make your comments.

Thanks

Andrea

Re: [RFC] purge recipes/linux-kexecboot and move to recipes/linux

[Andrea Adami]

Well,

fwiw actually recipes are in recipes/kexecboot and not recipes/linux-kexecboot

if one ever needs to look at those ;)


Sorry
Andrea

Re: [RFC] purge recipes/linux-kexecboot and move to recipes/linux

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2010/6/17 Andrea Adami <andrea.adami@gmail.com>:
> Hello,
>
> I plan to move soon the kernel recipes of linux-kexecboot in the
> standard recipes/linux location.

Actually I was wondering whether it made sense to move the
linux-libc-headers recipes to the linux dir too.
Not sure if there is enough overlap to make this beneficial in the end.

>
> Being that the kernel directory is already overpopulated I was

It is. Shouldn't we clean up this one? Or maybe introduce some subdirs or so?

> thinking to remove some obsolete versions before moving the recipes.
> I know that obsolete != unused, that's why I'm asking:
>
> Who is using linux-kexecboot kernels?
> Which machines apart some Zaurus are needing older 2.6.2x kernels?
>
> If it's only about Zaurus I'd *only* keep an older version (still to
> decide if 2.6.24 or 2.6.26) for a while and the latest 2.6.34.
>
> Please make your comments.
>
> Thanks
>
> Andrea
>
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Re: [RFC] purge recipes/linux-kexecboot and move to recipes/linux

[Steffen Sledz]

Am 17.06.2010 14:24, schrieb Andrea Adami:
> Which machines apart some Zaurus are needing older 2.6.2x kernels?
> 
> If it's only about Zaurus I'd *only* keep an older version (still to
> decide if 2.6.24 or 2.6.26) for a while and the latest 2.6.34.

hipox needs 2.6.24. :(

Re: [RFC] purge recipes/linux-kexecboot and move to recipes/linux

[Hans Henry von Tresckow]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 5:24 AM, Andrea Adami <andrea.adami@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I plan to move soon the kernel recipes of linux-kexecboot in the
> standard recipes/linux location.
>
> Being that the kernel directory is already overpopulated I was
> thinking to remove some obsolete versions before moving the recipes.
> I know that obsolete != unused, that's why I'm asking:
>
> Who is using linux-kexecboot kernels?
> Which machines apart some Zaurus are needing older 2.6.2x kernels?
>
> If it's only about Zaurus I'd *only* keep an older version (still to
> decide if 2.6.24 or 2.6.26) for a while and the latest 2.6.34.
>
> Please make your comments.
>
> Thanks
>
> Andrea
>
> Poodle still only works with 2.6.24. I would vote to keep that one and I'll
try to get 2.6.34 working... at least it has early_printk :)


-- 
Henry von Tresckow (hvontres)

Re: [RFC] purge recipes/linux-kexecboot and move to recipes/linux

[Koen Kooi]

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On 17-06-10 14:24, Andrea Adami wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I plan to move soon the kernel recipes of linux-kexecboot in the
> standard recipes/linux location.
> 
> Being that the kernel directory is already overpopulated I was
> thinking to remove some obsolete versions before moving the recipes.
> I know that obsolete != unused, that's why I'm asking:
> 
> Who is using linux-kexecboot kernels?
> Which machines apart some Zaurus are needing older 2.6.2x kernels?
> 
> If it's only about Zaurus I'd *only* keep an older version (still to
> decide if 2.6.24 or 2.6.26) for a while and the latest 2.6.34.
> 
> Please make your comments.

I'm confused if you're RFC'ing one or more things, could you please show
patches to illustrate what you want?

regards,

Koen
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Re: [RFC] purge recipes/linux-kexecboot and move to recipes/linux

[Andrea Adami]

> I'm confused if you're RFC'ing one or more things, could you please show
> patches to illustrate what you want?
>
> regards,
>
> Koen

Yea, actually the true RFC is about removing unused versions.
I don't think just moving *all* would even need an RFC...

My concerns are about the cruft if I would blindly copy all stuff.
This would stay there for long long time.

As example, I'd like to know if omap band could now move to 2.6.34 so
we could just throw the 2.6.29 and 2.6.32.

Regards

Andrea