Re: [PATCH 0/4] linux-yocto: consolidated pull request

[Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@intel.com>]

On Wed, 2012-12-05 at 16:27 +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-12-05 at 10:06 -0600, Tom Zanussi wrote:
> > On Wed, 2012-12-05 at 15:48 +0000, Burton, Ross wrote:
> > > On 21 November 2012 21:32, Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@windriver.com> wrote:
> > > > atom-pc should probably be using the 3.4 kernel, but that's a
> > > > question for Darren/Tom/Nitin (so I've added them to the cc), since
> > > > there may be a reason (with respect to graphics) as to why it is on
> > > > 3.0.
> > > 
> > > Ping Darren/Tom/Nitin.
> > > 
> > > atom-pc is certainly lagging behind by still being on 3.0, and I can't
> > > see any reason why we'd want to stick with 3.0 for graphics.  In fact
> > > as the most common graphics driver used on atom-pc is a i965 we want a
> > > modern kernel as that is where the development is.
> > > 
> > 
> > I don't know of any technical reason for it to still be at 3.0.
> > 
> > Until recently all of the 'core machines' were at 3.0 and probably the
> > assumption was that whoever upgraded those in the past would also be
> > upgrading atom-pc - has that changed?.
> > 
> > So who does own the core machines and if that doesn't cover atom-pc,
> > then who owns that?
> 
> As I understood it, WR owns the non-IA core machines, you (as in the
> Intel team) own the IA ones, namely atom-pc.
> 

OK, yeah, I anyway had just assumed it was WR for the core machines:

 commit f08b8c96402cd2b1e939f1babbc002d630fbf274 
 Author: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@windriver.com>
 Date:   Fri Aug 19 00:37:08 2011 -0400

    meta-yocto: atom-pc/mpc8315e-rdb change preferred version to 3.0
    
    Updating two more yocto hardware reference platforms to use the
    3.0 kernel by default.

But I see that Darren had done the previous upgrade:

 commit 622fb696a6fc9eab991a5f412eb28e2ff949a32b
 Author: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
 Date:   Fri May 6 12:12:50 2011 -0700

    atom-pc: use linux-yocto (2.6.37) kernel
    
    Tested boot, network, sato desktop, amixer, and audio playback on a
Toshiba
    NB305 netbook.

And it does make sense for Intel to own the atom-pc, it's just never
been clearly stated unless I missed the discussion.

Tom

> Cheers,
> 
> Richard
>