[poky] [PATCH 0/1] linux-yocto/stable: streamline BSP processing

[Richard Purdie]

Hi Bruce,

On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 01:22 -0500, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> The subject is a bit deceiving, since the 'streamlining' that I've been
> working on for BSP / external board building for a while, actually
> solves a lot of the SRCREV/race conditions that we've been seeing.
> 
> With the new fetcher and some factoring of the code, I've been able
> to delete 99% of the anonymous python and simply the processing
> for new BSPs.
> 
> To create a BSP against the yocto kernels all one must do is put
> the variable YOCTO_KERNEL_EXTERNAL_BRANCH and indicate the branch
> name that should be used. The tools and processing does the rest.
> 
> I built all existing boards, and bootstrapped a BSP against the
> stable and devel yocto kernels while testing this. Everything
> worked well.
> 
> Darren: I haven't touched the preempt_rt recipes (yet), but we
> can streamline them as well.
> 
> This is the first step in some other refactoring and cleanups for
> easier inclusion of the yocto kernel parts, but we'll let this
> soak first before stacking more changes on top.

Looks good, nice to see this cleaning up, thanks! :)

Cheers,

Richard