[meta-freescale] couple simple questions about building for i.MX6 targets

[Otavio Salvador]

Hello Robert,

On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 6:20 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>
>   a couple simple questions about using meta-freescale for building
> for i.MX6 targets, then a more involved question to follow shortly.
>
>   first, based on current master branch of meta-freescale, just want
> to confirm that building for any of i.MX6QP/Q/DL represents a MACHINE
> selection of "imx6qdlsabresd", at which point i get a single
> compatible kernel and need only select the appropriate .dtb file to be
> used, correct? (pretty sure this is the case, i just don't want there
> to be any doubt.)

In fact, the U-Boot loads the right dtb automatically. It uses SPL to
do the SoC detection and act accordingly.

>   also, i just did such a build on my fedora 26 system, and i notice
> that the kernel-source unloaded for this build was kernel version
> 4.1.44:
>
>   VERSION = 4
>   PATCHLEVEL = 1
>   SUBLEVEL = 44
>   EXTRAVERSION =
>   NAME = Series 4800
>
> but in meta-freescale's collection of kernel recipes, i see no
> explicit reference to that particular kernel version. i do see a
> recipe file "linux-imx_4.1.15.bb" -- where in the hierarchy of config
> and recipe files does this build settle on the 4.1.44 kernel version?
> thanks.

Our linux-fslc-imx_4.1-2.0.x.bb kernel has the 4.1.15 official BSP
kernel + stable release (so the 4.1.44) + community fixes/improvements


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