[meta-freescale] [PATCH][meta-fsl-arm] mx28evk: Change to 'linux-fslc'

Fabio Estevam festevam at gmail.com
Thu Nov 20 07:21:17 PST 2014


On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:35 AM, Otavio Salvador
<otavio at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
> Hello Fabio,
>
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Fabio Estevam
> <fabio.estevam at freescale.com> wrote:
>> Let's use a more recent kernel for mx28evk by default by moving it to
>> 'linux-fslc'.
>>
>> While at it, override imx-test and gst fsl, so that we don't have build issues
>> due to the usage of a non-FSL kernel.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam at freescale.com>
>
> Does it means Freescale is adopting officially the Linux mainline for
> MX28? If this is the case I am fine with the patch.

No, it does not.

>
> Changing this has several implications on the base BSP. The first is
> that every new project will use Linux mainline and thus Freescale
> support channels need to be aware of this change. Furthermore, as the
> binary codecs and imx-test are going to not be tested this imply we
> drop the support for MX28 at same time.

Understood. Just wanted to make things easier for those who want to
use a more recent kernel on mx28.


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