Re: kernel versions

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

On 02/21/2011 08:52 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
> I have my own kernel recipes (historical reasons...) which I
> now have 2 versions of. Some platforms have not yet been
> ported to the latest version and I need to keep using the
> older one for those platforms until the porting is complete.
>
> Sadly, I can't get this to work.
>
> Here's what I have
> $ tree meta-amltd/packages/linux/
> meta-amltd/packages/linux/
> ├── linux-am_2.6.32.bb
> ├── linux-am_2.6.37.bb

For clarity, this is my distribution which is layered on Poky

> $ tree meta-cobra3530p60/packages/linux/
> meta-cobra3530p60/packages/linux/
> ├── linux-am-2.6.32
> │ └── cobra3530p60
> │ ├── cobra3530p60.patch
> │ └── defconfig
> ├── linux-am_2.6.32.bbappend

This is one of my platform/machine layers

>
> I tried these settings in my machine/cobra3530p60
> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel = "linux-am"
> PREFERRED_VERSION_virtual/kernel = "2.6.32"
>
> However, it still wants to build version 2.6.37
>
> What am I missing? How can I force it to use the 2.6.32 version
> for this machine?
>
> Thanks
>

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