Re: [meta-fsl-arm-extra][PATCH v2] riotboard: Fix broken image builds against linux-fslc

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

On 2015-04-29 15:51, Nikolay Dimitrov wrote:
> Hi Gary,
>
> On 04/30/2015 12:42 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> On 2015-04-29 15:38, Nikolay Dimitrov wrote:
>>> Several Yocto images fail to build because they're using packages that
>>> require
>>> imx6-specific hardware support (ASRC, VPU, GPU3D), which is not
>>> available in
>>> the mainline kernel. This patch fixes the following image builds:
>>> - core-image-minimal
>>> - core-image-base
>>> - fsl-image-multimedia
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Dimitrov <picmaster@mail.bg>
>>> ---
>>>   conf/machine/imx6dl-riotboard.conf |    3 +++
>>>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/conf/machine/imx6dl-riotboard.conf
>>> b/conf/machine/imx6dl-riotboard.conf
>>> index b611ffb..05f6a38 100644
>>> --- a/conf/machine/imx6dl-riotboard.conf
>>> +++ b/conf/machine/imx6dl-riotboard.conf
>>> @@ -15,3 +15,6 @@ PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel ?= "linux-fslc"
>>>   KERNEL_DEVICETREE = "imx6dl-riotboard.dtb"
>>>
>>>   SERIAL_CONSOLE = "115200 ttymxc1"
>>> +
>>> +MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS_remove = "fsl-alsa-plugins"
>>> +MACHINE_GSTREAMER_PLUGIN_imx6dl-riotboard = ""
>>>
>>
>> Is there some way to make this weaker?  For example, these
>> changes will be icorrect if [when?] you get the linux-fslc 3.14
>> kernel going.
>
> Yes, I was also thinking about it. My plan is to fix this when
> introducing the 3.14 support, but as of today there's no such support
> for riotboard, so I would prefer to push whatever I have
> working.

I've not looked at backporting to 3.14 (I was leaving that for you!)
but how different would the device tree from 4.1-rc1 need to be to
work with 3.14?  Isn't that (plus the stitching to get it built)
about all that's needed?

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