Re: [patch] linux-yocto-rt_3.10.bbappend recipe

[Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@windriver.com>]

On 13-11-07 01:35 PM, Darren Hart wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-11-05 at 22:25 -0500, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 6:06 PM, Eric Keller <keller.eric@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> could you consider applying this patch so that we are able to build rt
>>> kernel for genericx86(-64)?
>>
>> Send a patch against the main linux-yocto-rt recipe (not via this
>> attached bbappend
>> patch), and we can have a look.
>
> Bruce, the genericx86 BSPs are not in oe-core, they are in
> meta-yocto-bsp, so the bbappend is the right place to do this.

Ah yes. Right you are.

>
>>
>> But adding the support is something that you can easily carry in your
>> own layer,
>> since by adding the support to the main recipe, we are implicitly agreeing that
>> I'll build and boot test it with each update. And I don't have a large
>> objection to that,
>> but I add new supported boards with caution, in particular genericx86, since it
>> doesn't have a tightly controlled platform or set of drivers.
>
> For context, I met with Eric and suggested he send this patch. I would
> be adding it myself if he didn't as genericx86* absolutely must support
> PREEMPT_RT IMNSHO.

Then I assume you'll be taking all the testing of it as well ? The
patch as it stands is still not properly formatted, but that's a
minor 'nit.

We should have cc'd the poky list on this as well, since it actually
isn't any changes to linux-yocto itself to support the type.

Bruce

>