Re: [PATCH v5 0/8] Linux 3.0 build support

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, 2011-07-01 at 15:07 +0200, Anders Darander wrote:
> v5: - task-base.bb: Move the RDEPENDS- and RRECOMMENDS_task-base-kernel26
>       to *_task-base.
> 
> v4: Removed the RFC in patch subject.
>     - Merge the patches 2 and 4 from v3. 
>     - Bump PR in patch 2.
>     - Delete the ignore*.patch from module-init-tools. In v2, the 
>       patch was just disabled.
> 
> v3: - task-base.bb: fix a problem that *pcmia26 couldn't be found.
> 
> v2: Probably some more patches could be squashed together. There might also
>     be more places that should be addressed in these patches.
> 
>     - Whitespace fixes
>     - Updated module-init-tools to 3.16. I'm not applying the ignore*.patch
>     (it didn't apply).
>     - Do not provide virtual/*/depmod-2.6; just provide virtual/*/depmod.
>     - Do only install as depmod.
>     - Rearrange the order of some patches.
>     - Added patches to clean up (partly) task-base, distro_tracking_fields.
> 
>     A few of the patches might be ready to pull, but the majority will need
>     to be revised.
> 
> ===============
> This work is unfinished and incomplete...
> It is published in its current form both to get feedback, but also to aid
> anyone else who is working on 3.0-support. If some of the patches are found to
> be OK, it's fine to cherrypick them.
> 
> The kernel-related classes has been modified to build a 3.0 kernel. The
> patches has been simplified by removing support for the 2.4-series. (The
> latter was suggested in an older mail thread:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org/msg02682.html
> ).
> 
> The patches has been tested on linux-yocto_2.6.37 and a hacked version using
> the linux-yocto-dev repository (using a 3.0-rcX). The latest versions has only
> been built for qemuarm, prior iterations has also been built for qemux86.
> 
> Finally, no work has been done on the libc-linux-headers classes and recipes.
> 
> /Anders
> 
> The following changes since commit 40ecaf6a59ba61e72d29d7e677197ef37c998408:
> 
>   uclibc: Add default uClibc.machine files (2011-07-01 00:40:10 +0100)
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
>   git://github.com/darander/oe-core kernel-3.0
>   https://github.com/darander/oe-core/tree/kernel-3.0
> 
> Anders Darander (8):
>   Remove support for building 2.4 kernels
>   image¡kernel.bblass module-init-tools: do not use depmod-2.6
>   modules-init-tools(-cross): update to 3.16
>   kernel.bblass: remove get_kernelmajorversion
>   modutils-initscripts: move recipe prior to modutils removal
>   modutils: remove modutils
>   task-base: remove modutils reference.
>   distro_tracking_fields: remove modutils.

Thanks for these, I merged them to master.

Cheers,

Richard