[meta-intel] Next Gen Intel BSPs

[Kamble, Nitin A]

On 2/21/2014 1:16 AM, Hart, Darren wrote:
> On 2/20/14, 18:56, "Zanussi, Tom" <tom.zanussi at intel.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2014-02-11 at 18:18 -0600, Hart, Darren wrote:
>>> All,
>>>
>>> I have just pushed the next-gen Intel BSP changes following the meta
>>> commits to linux-yocto-dev and linux-yocto-3.10.
>>>
>>> Changes include:
>>>
>>> 1) New common BSPs:
>>> intel-core2-32:  Support core2 and old atom (pre-baytrail) CPUs
>>> intel-corei7-64: Support Nehalem and Baytrail and newer core/xeon/atom
>>> CPUs
>>>
>>> [ ] Beth: Can you please add these two BSPs to meta-intel-nightly?
>>>
>>> 2) New INTEL_COMMON_PACKAGE_ARCH
>>> This is set to ${TUNE_PKGARCH}-intel-common and applies to any BSP
>>> including intel-common-pkgarch.inc. This demotes the linux-yocto and
>>> linux-yocto-dev recipes to a PACKAGE_ARCH less specific than
>>> MACHINE_ARCH
>>> (the default for linux-yocto*). For machines that include the
>>> intel-common-pkgarch.inc and delete their linux-yocto*bbappend Files,
>>> they
>>> will reuse the intel-common linux-yocto* package. This is either the
>>> intel-core2-32-intel-common or the intel-corei7-64-intel-common kernel,
>>> the same one used for the two new BSPs.
>>>
>>> Using the new intel-common PACKAGE_ARCH is an opt-in mechanism.
>>> Currently
>>> only the two new BSPs are using it, although the linux-yocto meta-data
>>> is
>>> already building in support for all the non-emgd meta-intel BSPs.
>>>
>>> Next step is to add the inclusion of the intel-common-pkgarch.inc to
>>> every
>>> BSP and delete the linux-yocto machine-specific bbappend and
>>> build/boot/verify each BSP. Such a patch series exists here:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-intel-contrib/log/?h=dvhar
>>> t/
>>> bsp-ng
>>>
>>>
>> Just FYI...
>>
>> crownbay-noemgd from bsp-ng boots but X doesn't start (last good boot or
>> normal non-bsp-ng bSP was 2/12 so it's either this patchset or something
>> in master since then, will look into it...):
> Thanks Tom,
>
> I discovered tonight that I botched the PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS variable in
> intel-common-pkgarch. I omitted the trailing S, causing the kernel-modules
> package to not be found and not be installed. I've pushed the fix to
> meta-intel/master, and updated the dvhart/bsp-ng branch on top of it and
> pushed that out to contrib. Probably worth trying with that now. Sorry
> about that :-/
>
> --
> Darren
Thanks for the update Darren, I was also noticing no kernel modules 
installed on the sugarbay system. Hence no webcam support. I am 
rebuilding with your latest branch now.

Nitin


>> using poky/master: bb0c26960d3b05070346cdfdfd05d6fd4ad0a7b1
>>
>>
>> Stopping Bootlog daemon: bootlogd.
>> Loading extension GLX
>>
>> Poky (Yocto Project Reference Distro) 1.5+snapshot-20140221
>> crownbay-noemgd /dev/ttyS0
>>
>> crownbay-noemgd login: vesa: Ignoring device with a bound kernel driver
>> (EE)
>> Fatal server error:
>> (EE) no screens found(EE)
>> (EE)
>> Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
>>          at http://wiki.x.org
>> for help.
>> (EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for
>> additional information.
>> (EE)
>> (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
>>
>> Poky (Yocto Project Reference Distro) 1.5+snapshot-20140221
>> crownbay-noemgd /dev/ttyS0
>>
>> crownbay-noemgd login: xinit: giving up
>> xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused
>> xinit: server error
>>
>> Poky (Yocto Project Reference Distro) 1.5+snapshot-20140221
>> crownbay-noemgd /dev/ttyS0
>>
>>
>>> This adds amt/mei to the intel-common kernel as well as autoloading of
>>> uio
>>> and iwlwifi to accommodate crystal forest,romley, and fri2 default
>>> settings.
>>>
>>> This branch is running meta-intel-nightly Build #42 on ab03
>>>
>>> [ ] Nitin, can you help nurse this patch series into something ready to
>>> commit? Including some boot testing?
>>>
>>> [ ] Boon Leon, this update the ISG BSPs as well to use the common
>>> kernel.
>>> This only impacts the upcoming 1.6 release. Please review and boot test
>>> and let us know if you have any objections to these changes to your
>>> BSPs.
>>>
>>> This series also purges all the 3.4 and 3.8 linux-yocto* bbappends from
>>> the meta-intel master branch as they are no longer supported for 1.6.
>>> With
>>> 3.10 LTSI now merged, the time has come to remove them.
>>>
>>> The diffstat here is rather pleasing from a maintenance perspective :-)
>>>
>>> $ git diff origin/master.. | diffstat -s
>>>   81 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 934 deletions(-)
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>
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