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From: "Randy Witt" <randy.e.witt@linux.intel.com>
To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
	<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Cc: alex.kanavin@gmail.com
Subject: RFC: Upgrading rt-tests requires numactl
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 10:22:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <711dd8de-1ea7-e3cd-d606-5f69faa7c8a3@linux.intel.com> (raw)

While looking into upgrading rt-tests to the latest version, on IRC, John 
Kacur(the maintainer of rt-tests), recommended "that they use 
unstable/devel/latest as the maintained stable branch".

I updated the recipes in 
http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/commit/?h=rewitt/rt-tests-upgrade&id=551b25918d06c903fff22d76d5683b548c4f2e6f. 
However, I know this won't work as is, due to the issues below.

The latest version of rt-tests requires the numa libraries for compilation via 
this patch https://marc.info/?l=linux-rt-users&m=158335896221530&w=2. rt-tests 
exists in oe-core, but numactl which provides libnuma/numa.h exists in 
meta-openembedded.

Another issue is that ARM is removed from COMPATIBLE_HOST in 
http://cgit.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded/tree/meta-oe/recipes-support/numactl/numactl_git.bb?h=master#n27. 
This may be for legacy reasons, but libnuma can be installed on most 
distributions running on an ARM host. Regardless, it would need to be changed to 
allow for rt-tests on ARM.

I'm therefore trying to determine how to proceed to upgrade rt-tests. These are 
the options I thought of, which are most likely not exhaustive.

1. Bring numactl into oe-core
2. move rt-tests out of oe-core
3. TMy to patch out the numa requirement and carry it forever(doesn't appear to 
be a small task)

             reply	other threads:[~2020-09-23 17:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-23 17:22 Randy Witt [this message]
2020-09-23 17:31 ` [OE-core] RFC: Upgrading rt-tests requires numactl Richard Purdie
2020-09-23 21:40 ` Ross Burton
2020-09-24  6:00   ` Khem Raj
2020-09-28 21:28     ` Randy Witt

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