[meta-intel] Next Gen Intel BSPs

[Tom Zanussi]

On Tue, 2014-02-25 at 07:48 -0600, Hart, Darren wrote:
> On 2/25/14, 21:44, "Zanussi, Tom" <tom.zanussi at intel.com> wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 20:56 -0600, Tom Zanussi 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...):
> >> 
> >> using poky/master: bb0c26960d3b05070346cdfdfd05d6fd4ad0a7b1
> >> 
> >
> >So the problem here is some kind of interference with the CONFIG_GMA600,
> >which is now turned on by default - I'll have to either dig into find
> >the actual problem or just turn it off for _crownbay-noegd...
> 
> Oh... Hrm... We should actually be able to use that driver now on the
> Tunnel Creek systems as of 3.10-LTSI and 3.13+. Scott Garman tested it on
> the MinnowBoard, I haven't done so myself unfortunately. Do we specify
> another driver in the xorg.conf or something that is causing some
> confusion about which driver to use?
> 

No, there's no special xorg.conf for crownbay-noemgd...

Tom

> --
> Darren
> 
> >
> >Tom
> >
> >> 
> >> 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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