[meta-freescale] [meta-fsl-arm][PATCH 2/2] linux-imx: Cleanup recipe as SabreLITE machine has been moved

[Eric Nelson]

On 10/16/2013 01:30 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Eric Nelson
> <eric.nelson at boundarydevices.com> wrote:
>> On 10/16/2013 01:21 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Eric Nelson
>>> <eric.nelson at boundarydevices.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 10/16/2013 10:04 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Eric Nelson
>>>>> <eric.nelson at boundarydevices.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Otavio,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 04/06/2013 09:30 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The SabreLITE machine is now supported using the Boundary Devices
>>>>>>> kernel in meta-fsl-arm-extra, so we remove the patch and specific
>>>>>>> overrides of this recipe.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Change-Id: I109226bf6fc5f5d9979430795b990dfe09b11421
>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Otavio Salvador <otavio at ossystems.com.br>
>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>      .../linux-imx-3.0.35/imx6qsabrelite/defconfig      |  272 -
>>>>>>>      .../imx6qsabrelite/sync-boundary-changes.patch     | 7473
>>>>>>> --------------------
>>>>>>>      recipes-kernel/linux/linux-imx_3.0.35.bb           |    3 -
>>>>>>>      3 files changed, 7748 deletions(-)
>>>>>>>      delete mode 100644
>>>>>>> recipes-kernel/linux/linux-imx-3.0.35/imx6qsabrelite/defconfig
>>>>>>>      delete mode 100644
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> recipes-kernel/linux/linux-imx-3.0.35/imx6qsabrelite/sync-boundary-changes.patch
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It seems that this broke something. Machine-type "imx6qsabrelite" will
>>>>>> fail to fetch because of a missing defconfig file.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> With MACHINE="imx6qsabrelite", the fetch command for "linux-boundary"
>>>>>> doesn't know to search in "nitrogen6x/" as shown below.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there a way to fix this besides copying the directory?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes; you can add it to the MACHINEOVERRIDES.
>>>>>
>>>>> You can add to imx6qsabrelite.conf:
>>>>>
>>>>> MACHINEOVERRIDES =. "nitrogen6x"
>>>>>
>>>>> This should do the trick.
>>>>>
>>>> Thanks Otavio.
>>>>
>>>> I had to use "=" instead of "=." or the fetch process would look
>>>> in a directory named "nitrogen6ximx6qsabrelite/".
>>>>
>>>> A patch is forthcoming.
>>>
>>>
>>> MACHINEOVERRIDES =. "nitrogen6x:"
>>>
>>> With the : it would work.
>>>
>>
>> Rats! I tried ":nitrogen6x" and got the same thing (nitrogen6ximx6q...).
>>
>> Any problem with just = "nitrogen6x"?
>>
>> Since we don't have a proper imx6qsabrelite directory, this seems
>> a reasonable approach.
>
> Yes but if we need a SABRELite dir in future we'll need to change it again.
>

I hope we don't. The kernel takes care of all of that, and we should
be moving to consolidate via DT.

> It is up to you.
>

My preference is to use the patch as given and move forward.

Right now, the "imx6qsabrelite" machine type is simply broken.

Regards,


Eric