[meta-intel] [PATCH 02/27] Add Intel core2 and corei7 BSPs and tune files

[Bruce Ashfield]

On 14-01-27 08:16 PM, Darren Hart wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-01-28 at 00:50 -0500, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>> On 1/27/2014, 7:45 PM, Darren Hart wrote:
>
>>> +++ b/conf/machine/intel-core2-32.conf
>>> @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
>>> +#@TYPE: Machine
>>> +#@NAME: intel-core2-32
>>> +
>>> +#@DESCRIPTION: Machine configuration for 32 bit Intel Core 2 CPU (and later) with MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, and SSSE3 instruction set support. Supports a moderately wide range of drivers that should boot and be usable on "typical" hardware.
>>> +
>>> +PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel = "linux-yocto-dev"
>>
>> Should this be a ?= assignment ? That way when the BSPs release, they'll
>> track linux-yocto versus linux-yocto-dev, and the preferred provider can
>> be override.
>
> I wasn't sure on this one. These are new BSPs and until linux-yocto-dev
> works for them, there is nothing. They currently use common-pc, but they
> will be getting a lot of attention over the next couple of weeks to
> flesh them out to support the majority of the existing BSPs in
> meta-intel currently. So for that... I had left it as =. When the kernel
> locks down, we'll move these to whatever that version is and leave the
> preferred provider to a ?= linux-yocto.

Sounds good. Thanks for the explanation.

Bruce

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