From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.windriver.com (mail.windriver.com [147.11.1.11]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71BE0E017C1 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2013 10:38:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from ALA-HCA.corp.ad.wrs.com (ala-hca.corp.ad.wrs.com [147.11.189.40]) by mail.windriver.com (8.14.5/8.14.3) with ESMTP id rA7IcapC009391 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=FAIL); Thu, 7 Nov 2013 10:38:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from [128.224.146.67] (128.224.146.67) by ALA-HCA.corp.ad.wrs.com (147.11.189.50) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.2.347.0; Thu, 7 Nov 2013 10:38:35 -0800 Message-ID: <527BDE2A.2030408@windriver.com> Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 13:38:34 -0500 From: Bruce Ashfield User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Darren Hart , Bruce Ashfield References: <1383849357.5378.43.camel@dvhart-mobl4.amr.corp.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <1383849357.5378.43.camel@dvhart-mobl4.amr.corp.intel.com> Cc: "poky@yoctoproject.org" Subject: Re: [patch] linux-yocto-rt_3.10.bbappend recipe X-BeenThere: poky@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Poky build system developer discussion & patch submission for meta-yocto List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 18:38:39 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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 >