[meta-intel] [PATCH] bsps: update meta SRCREVs

[Bruce Ashfield]

On 15-07-24 12:13 PM, Darren Hart wrote:
> On 7/23/15, 3:59 PM, "Bruce Ashfield" <bruce.ashfield at windriver.com> wrote:
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>> On 2015-07-23 6:56 PM, Burton, Ross wrote:
>>>
>>> On 23 July 2015 at 23:45, Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield at windriver.com
>>> <mailto:bruce.ashfield at windriver.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>      This is only master, and the first tree with no meta branch is
>>>      the 4.1 kernel tree.
>>>
>>>      Existing branches, with their kernel trees, and tools continue to
>>>      work as they were.
>>>
>>>
>>> Either it's late (it is) or I'm being dumb (quite likely), but why did
>>> we need to fix the 3.19 srvrevs if it only impacts 4.1 kernels?
>>
>> Because the SRC_URI of the main recipe in master now points the
>> meta name at yocto-kernel-cache (as does 3.14). I needed to do
>> that, so I could remove the dead code from the tools and put that
>> into master.
>>
>> Some of the main goals here was to reduce complexity, and promote
>> the sharing of the fragments. So the old stuff goes to the bin :)
>
> How will this affect the meta branch of the older kernels in terms of
> receiving updates that the previous releases, without the infrastructure
> for the yocto-kernel-cache, can use? Are you going to apply changes to
> both the old meta branch as well as the new repository until fido is EOL?

Yep. I just apply changes to the meta branches, and update the SRCREVs
in existing branches, just as I always did.

I always apply changes to both the linux-yocto meta branch and the
kernel-cache, so if that same kernel recipe was used in master, the
result is the same.

Bruce

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