[meta-intel] Old Hardware Support

[Mittal, Anuj]

Hi,

On Sun, 2018-12-23 at 18:07 +0100, Enrico Pelò wrote:
> Hello guys,
> I’m new to the bitbake.
> I need to create image with the latest distro (THUD) with Qt5 and
> meta intel.
>  
> I’ve old Intel hardware N3700 (Cherry Hill), building the image for
> intel-corei7-64 does not work on this hardware with Thud branch.
> I think the BSP Kernel is too new for this hardware.

Can you please share the error and the logs? What exactly is happening
and with which kernel version?

>  
> Unfortunately I’m not able to find a way to fix, maybe is necessary
> to build the image for this hardware with old kernel?
>  
> Is there some docs that explain how to achieve this?

You can switch between the kernels to be built using:

PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-intel = "4.9%"

or 

PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-intel = "4.14%"

or 

PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-intel = "4.19%"