[meta-freescale] adding kernel configuration fragments to wandboard kernel

[Otavio Salvador]

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 6:09 PM, Mike Wilson <mwilson at kymetacorp.com> wrote:
> Q: what is the right way to modify the kernel config when using
> linux-wandboard recipes?
>
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> The yocto manuals say that you can define fragment files in your own layer,
> which I have done.
>
> recipes-kernel/linux/linux-wandboard_3.0.35.bbappend is being read by the
> build system, and the .cfg files are being picked up, because they get
> copied to the kernel build directory:
>
> .../build/tmp/work/wandboard_dual-poky-linux-gnueabi/linux-wandboard/3.0.35-r0/i2c-spidev.cfg
>
> defconfig is in the same directory.
>
> The contents of i2c-spidev.cfg never make it into the git/.config file. I
> noticed that the code to do this is in kernel-yocto.bbclass, but this isn't
> included by any of the imx or wandboard kernel recipes. In fact, I attempted
> to include it, but I ended up with the yocto kernel source, hmm, not so
> good.
>
>
>
> What is your suggestion? Forget the fragment idea?

meta-fsl-arm and meta-fsl-arm-extra kernels does not use the Linux
Yocto framework so you must to apply patches or provide replacement
defconfig files to adapt the kernel.

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