[linux-yocto] [PATCH] meta: add genericx86 BSP

[Darren Hart]

Cc'ing Ross

On Wed, 2013-08-21 at 16:17 -0400, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> On 13-08-21 01:33 PM, Darren Hart wrote:
> > On Wed, 2013-08-21 at 17:57 +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
> >> This BSP aims at supporting a broad range of Intel platforms, from Atom up to
> >> Xeon.  As such the kernel includes a range of drivers, and the corresponding
> >> machine configuration in meta-yocto-bsp includes a range of user-space drivers.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton at intel.com>
> >> ---
> >>   .../bsp/genericx86/genericx86-standard.scc         |   28 ++++++++++++++++++++
> >>   1 file changed, 28 insertions(+)
> >>   create mode 100644 meta/cfg/kernel-cache/bsp/genericx86/genericx86-standard.scc
> >>
> >> diff --git a/meta/cfg/kernel-cache/bsp/genericx86/genericx86-standard.scc b/meta/cfg/kernel-cache/bsp/genericx86/genericx86-standard.scc
> >> new file mode 100644
> >> index 0000000..94d8ca7
> >> --- /dev/null
> >> +++ b/meta/cfg/kernel-cache/bsp/genericx86/genericx86-standard.scc
> >> @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
> >> +define KMACHINE genericx86
> >> +define KTYPE standard
> >> +define KARCH i386
> >> +
> >> +# TODO: long-term move away from common-pc?
> >> +include bsp/common-pc/common-pc-standard.scc
> >> +branch atom-pc
> >> +
> >> +include cfg/x86.scc
> >> +include cfg/boot-live.scc
> >> +
> >> +include features/power/intel.scc
> >> +
> >> +# Ideally all of these below would be modules instead of built-in.
> >> +
> >> +# common-pc brings in the other USB controllers
> >> +include features/usb/xhci-hcd.scc
> >
> > And should really bring this one in too...
> 
> Agreed!
> 
> >
> >> +
> >> +# Intel ethernet, old and new Intel wireless.
> >> +include features/rfkill/rfkill.scc
> >> +include features/intel-e1xxxx/intel-e1xxxx.scc
> >> +include features/iwlwifi/iwlwifi.scc
> >> +include features/iwlegacy/iwlegacy.scc
> >> +
> >> +# Intel Gen and GMA500. common-pc provides Vesa framebuffer.
> >> +include features/i915/i915.scc
> >> +include features/drm-gma500/drm-gma500.scc
> >> +include features/drm-gma500/drm-gma3600.scc
> >
> > This is really a fairly small change. Any reason this shouldn't just be
> > an update to common-pc? Is there a conceptual difference here?
> 
> I'd like to see them just merge. They are both targeting a similar set
> of commodity hardware platforms. Sure, qemux86 will pick these up as
> well, but as qemu gains more functionality we can use more and more of
> the options.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Bruce
> 
> 
> >
> 

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Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Linux Kernel