From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix, from userid 118) id 455E5E0098D; Wed, 29 Apr 2015 15:36:40 -0700 (PDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on yocto-www.yoctoproject.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-HAM-Report: * -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] Received: from mail.chez-thomas.org (mail.mlbassoc.com [65.100.170.105]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B748DE007CC for ; Wed, 29 Apr 2015 15:36:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix, from userid 1998) id C2CEEF811E1; Wed, 29 Apr 2015 16:36:33 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [192.168.1.114] (zeus [192.168.1.114]) by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 112FCF811E0; Wed, 29 Apr 2015 16:36:33 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <55415D06.6010506@mlbassoc.com> Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 16:36:54 -0600 From: Gary Thomas User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nikolay Dimitrov References: <1430343511-14563-1-git-send-email-picmaster@mail.bg> <55415041.1020508@mlbassoc.com> <55415253.8010108@mail.bg> <554153A9.8030404@mlbassoc.com> <5541575C.4030409@mail.bg> In-Reply-To: <5541575C.4030409@mail.bg> Cc: meta-freescale@yoctoproject.org Subject: Re: [meta-fsl-arm-extra][PATCH v2] riotboard: Fix broken image builds against linux-fslc 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, 29 Apr 2015 22:36:40 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 2015-04-29 16:12, Nikolay Dimitrov wrote: > Hi Gary, > > On 04/30/2015 12:56 AM, Gary Thomas wrote: >> 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 >>>>> --- >>>>> 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? > > I don't expect any back-porting work for FSL 3.14.28 kernel, only DT > work. My last experience of playing with DTs on several imx6 dual/quad > customer boards showed that beyond the initial enthusiasm it always > took much more than initially estimated, sometimes up to 2-3 days work. > > I don't like to say that, but for most of us Yocto is a spare-time > effort, which means its priority is below the commercial projects we're > working on. But I can assure you that I would love to see 3.14.28 > running on riotboard, just as you, and I'll do my best to make it > happen. > > If you feel enthusiastic about helping out with enabling the 3.14.28 > kernel support, your help will be warmly appreciated. I'll give it a look and see what I come up with. -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------