[meta-freescale] Building newer versions of kernel and u-boot

Flavio Castro Alves Filho flavio.alves at gmail.com
Mon Oct 14 10:51:05 PDT 2013


Hello Daiane,


2013/10/14 Daiane Angolini <daiane.angolini at freescale.com>:
> On 10/14/2013 02:29 PM, Flavio Castro Alves Filho wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I intend to build a newer version of U-Boot and Kernel for imx28evk.
>>
>> Is there any local.conf variable where I could set in order to have
>> newer versions of kernel and u-boot.
>>
>> I did the replacemente manually, but I believe that should have an
>> automatic option using Yocto.
>
>
> First thing would be determinate what you call "newer version"

3.x

>
> On master, the default linux for imx28 is 2.6.35. And it's the "newest
> kernel from freescale" for this board.
>
> If you intent to use kernel mainline, the newst version is 3.11 and you need
> only to change your PREFERRED_PROVIDER, add the following line to
> local.conf:
>
> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel = "linux-fslc"

Thank you very much ... that's my answer :-)

>
> For u-boot you are already using "newst" version as the default points to
> 2013.10

That's also my answer. :-)

>
> What do you realy need?
>

You got my points.
>
>>
>> Thank you very much.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Flavio
>>
>
>
> --
> Daiane
>

Best regards,

Flavio


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