[yocto] yocto-kernel-tools

[Darren Hart]

On 12/24/2012 08:15 AM, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
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> 
> 
> On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 6:28 AM, Rick Yang <Rick.Yang at enea.com
> <mailto:Rick.Yang at enea.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi , ____
> 
>     We have a linux release base on yocto, and we want to use
>     yocto-kernel-tools to manage kernel configuration fragments, instead
>     of the old method. So we want to know, when poky will use
>     yocto-kernel-tools to manage the kernel ? Is there a plan?
> 
> 
> I'm not sure I follow the question. Since yocto 1.0 the kern-tools have
> been used
> to manage the kernel, they've been changing over time, but the
> foundation and
> theory is the same.
> 
> If you want to manage a custom kernel, have a look in meta-skeleton for 
> linux-yocto-custom.bb <http://linux-yocto-custom.bb> and you can apply
> fragments to any upstream git tree
> of your choosing. It would of course be better if we get more
> contributions to the
> main linux-yocto meta data (yocto-kernel-cache and the linux-yocto meta
> branch), but
> that's completely voluntary. 

If you need some documentation on this please let us know, we have some
early docs going through some active development we can point you at if
interested.

-- 
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Technical Lead - Linux Kernel