[meta-freescale] i.MX6 AMP

[Otavio Salvador]

On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 5:16 PM, Edward Wingate <edwingate8 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 5:28 AM, Otavio Salvador
> <otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
>>> 1) Does this from ~20 months ago still hold true that meta-fsl-arm kernels cannot be
>>> configured via fragments? https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/meta-freescale/2014-February/007037.html
>>
>> Yes, it does.
>
> Is it in how the kernel recipes are written that fragments aren't
> supported?  Or does it go deeper than that?

For it to be properly supported we ought to use the Linux Yocto
framework and we do not use it.

>> 4.x works on Wandboard however it won't offer support for some parts
>> of the SoC, at this moment (GPU acceleration, some degree of IPU and
>> VPU, ...).
>
> So if I understand kernel development correctly, the extra Wandboard
> support is due to contributions to linux-wandboard kernel that didn't
> get upstreamed?  Is there a way to find these contributions besides
> reading commit logs/doing diffs?

Well, more than that. The missing features is because Freescale did
not upstream yet all the features for the mainline kernel.

> Thanks for the clarifications.  I've been using Yocto for almost a
> year now, but it's such a beast, I probably only really understand <1%
> of it.  The rest I just say a prayer that nothing goes wrong before
> each build.  =)

=) I wish you good luck!

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