[meta-freescale] Fwd: Adding -rt support for kernel

[Jacob Kroon]

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/Jacob

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From: Jacob Kroon <jacob.kroon at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 6:01 PM
Subject: Re: [meta-freescale] Adding -rt support for kernel
To: Eric Nelson <eric.nelson at boundarydevices.com>


Hi Eric,

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Eric Nelson <
eric.nelson at boundarydevices.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Based on some customer requests, we've applied the "-rt" patches
> to our kernel trees and pushed branches like this to our Github
> tree:
>
> https://github.com/boundarydevices/linux-imx6/tree/boundary-imx_3.10.17_1.0.0_ga-rt
>
> This makes it pretty simple for someone who's used git to build
> these kernels outside of Yocto, but is painful for integration
> into a Yocto-based build.
>
> For the "linux-imx" kernel, the package "linux-imx-rt" recipe
> defines a new variant of the kernel, but I don't understand how
> this can be used in a build.
>
> In other words, do you specify
>         PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel="linux-imx-rt"
> or
>         PREFERRED_VERSION_virtual/kernel_linux-imx="rt-3.10.17"
>
> Please advise,
>
>
For using the real-time patched kernel, I have

PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel_mx6 = "linux-imx-rt"

in my distro.conf, but plain

PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel = "linux-imx-rt"

should work just aswell. Is this not working for you ?

/Jacob
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