From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-gg0-f171.google.com (mail-gg0-f171.google.com [209.85.161.171]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FA0DE014EE for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2013 14:03:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-gg0-f171.google.com with SMTP id j1so313594ggn.30 for ; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 14:03:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=g89YlmLAG1z7RcdVWtiKTwGpXGpg7iT+rWXOGhY7vi4=; b=ll1CZ9Qbg5Wy8WrJ1oDzn46f+jOKlqVkGe+U7VCyL3nLOk6zIwL7s1h1a96UJusABH W9VY08TGHx/Oie4+xI6M0NrQB8vyO3DD+eRrXJRDry3cJRcTeBYISoBuUWGl2HIZru/5 0i9286GVJspbga9gxbN59Mst/o98xBqAToGyYA0XwfxQCCZyFNpTlH4XhvizWqzCAgxR 2CRwMFAV8Z8SHQ5i485LaR4qSGAtHqyf990nO9zsaZL/cRLGx1RjNsjNvA51UwIAv8ZO YoDVSQbrC+YD+/2u76Mceu0BFQ8xXvqV6tW1MzjjJxxkqvJumaQpIPpceZwdSIv1FR32 e0KA== X-Received: by 10.236.182.229 with SMTP id o65mr2049987yhm.160.1365023001345; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 14:03:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from goober.local ([75.76.228.60]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m28sm11726266yhi.11.2013.04.03.14.03.20 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 03 Apr 2013 14:03:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <515C991B.1010002@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 16:03:23 -0500 From: John Weber User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130307 Thunderbird/17.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daiane Angolini References: <1364961246-9450-1-git-send-email-rjohnweber@gmail.com> <515C3317.3050603@freescale.com> In-Reply-To: <515C3317.3050603@freescale.com> Cc: meta-freescale@yoctoproject.org Subject: Re: [meta-fsl-arm-extra][PATCH 0/3] Replace wandboard kernel X-BeenThere: meta-freescale@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Usage and development list for the meta-fsl-* layers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 21:03:22 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Daiane - On 4/3/13 8:48 AM, Daiane Angolini wrote: > On 04/03/2013 12:54 AM, John Weber wrote: >> This patchset adds a recipe to support building the wandboard kernel >> from the 'official' wandboard git repository. This recipe is named >> 'linux-wandboard'. > > Initially I was not confortable with this approach (of creating another linux > recipe only to cover one board), but I understood that the 'official' has been > maintained by community, and has been growing faster. So, I like/want to support > the community kernel. It really became apparent after the recent updates to their kernel repository. It is clear that they intend to keep it up to date and invite the community to assist (along with bringing in FSL updates as needed, of course). It became too much work to try to maintain a kernel outside of that (even though it tracked with the official FSL kernel). > > I'm not sure regarding the name "linux-wandboard". Isn't 'wandboard' the board > name? What would be the wandboard's linux provider name? The provider is Wandboard.org, so I think linux-wandboard makes sense. > > >> It also removes support from linux-imx for Wandboard so that kernel >> support for Wandboard is not confusing and is maintained in one >> repository. > > It makes me think that the same approach should be used for imx6sabrelite. > > Is there a (better) external git repository for sabre lite kernel? > > Thanks a lot, Jonh, for starting this. You're most welcome! > > Daiane >