Re: [PATCH 0/1] poky.conf: explicitly referenced preferred linux-yocto version

[Tom Rini <tom_rini@mentor.com>]

On 07/25/2011 11:05 AM, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> Here's a similar change to the meta-yocto boards, as was done
> to the qemu machines in oe-core. Since referencing yocto makes
> more sense in this layer, I made the change in the poky.conf
> distro default file.
> 
> As the staging of linux-yocto-3.0 showed, we should explicitly
> state our preferred version of linux-yocto. This prevents unvalidated
> changes from being forced into machines. Layers and machines are free
> to override this as they are updated.
> 
> cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@intel.com>
> 
> The following changes since commit dfec64a66e66ad4ec94a06ad900307fb0d932b98:
> 
>   machine/qemu: set preferred linux-yocto kernel version (2011-07-25 10:56:46 -0400)
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
>   git://git.pokylinux.org/poky-contrib zedd/kernel-yocto
>   http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=zedd/kernel-yocto
> 
> Bruce Ashfield (1):
>   poky.conf: explicitly referenced preferred linux-yocto version
> 
>  meta-yocto/conf/distro/poky.conf |    2 ++
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

I guess as an aside, the convention we have/had in oe.dev was
DEFAULT_PREFERENCE = -1, D_P_testedmachine1 = 1, etc, etc, in the kernel
recipes.

-- 
Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation