[yocto] Cedartrail and Dylan?

[Tom Zanussi]

On Tue, 2013-06-18 at 20:50 +0100, Chris Tapp wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> On 18 Jun 2013, at 15:04, Tom Zanussi wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2013-06-17 at 16:56 -0700, Paul D. DeRocco wrote:
> >> I've been using the Intel meta-cedartrail layer with Danny 8.0.1. Is this
> >> layer likely to be unusable with Dylan 9.0? Or unusable without lots of
> >> tinkering that's probably beyond my abilities?
> >> 
> >> And if I were to try Dylan, is it best to start from scratch, in a
> >> completely new directory?
> >> 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I believe the main problem would be the graphics driver - it would need
> > porting to the 3.8 kernel - the rest would probably be straightforward.
> > 
> > The cedartrail BSP was discontinued following danny, but I'm cc:ing the
> > maintainers in case they might have any further input.
> > 
> > I was thinking of creating a meta-intel/staging area for things like
> > this i.e. discontinued BSPs that people are still using, which would
> > contain best-effort updates but completely without promise of any kind
> > of support.  If there's enough interest, and there seems to be judging
> > from the number of questions about cedartrail we continue to keep
> > getting, I'll try to find some free time to take a stab at moving it to
> > dylan...
> 
> I'm certainly interested and happy to help out if I can.
> 
> I also see that ASRock are now making a board (http://www.asrock.com/IPC/overview.asp?Model=DN2800MT) that looks exactly the same as the Intel one with the same name aimed at signage and thin-client applications, so hardware will be about for a good few years yet,
> 

OK, good to know.  The only Cedar Trail hardware I have access to is the
Acer Aspire One I have here - let me see if I can get something going on
that...

Tom

> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Tom
> > 
> > 
> > 
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