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Subject: Re: kernel26 'machine feature'
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On 2012-04-05 14:02, Chris Tapp wrote:
> Quite a few machine conf files specify the kernel26 machine feature. e.g., crownbay.conf has:
>
> MACHINE_FEATURES = "kernel26 screen keyboard pci usbhost ext2 ext3 x86 \
>                      acpi serial usbgadget"
>
> What does this do? It's not listed at http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/latest/poky-ref-manual/poky-ref-manual.html#ref-features-machine and seems to be at odds with:
>
> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel ?= "linux-yocto"
> PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto = "3.0%"

I don't think it does anything any more.  I'm pretty sure it used
to be used to select which style of kernel module utilities to
install (there was a change in kernel module format between 2.4
and 2.6), but it seems that's gone now.  At least in the Poky/Yocto
tree (oe-core + meta-yocto), there is no active use of this feature.

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