[yocto] Deciding between yocto kernels and soc vendor kernels

[Davis Roman]

Hi Khem,

That makes sense.

Thank you for replying!

-Davis

On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 1:46 PM, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Oct 20, 2016, at 10:32 AM, Davis Roman <davis.roman84 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hello Yocto Community,
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> As I understand it, the Yocto project team cherry-picks certain kernel
> versions from kernel.org to be dedicated as Yocto Project Linux Kernels
> that have support for the officially supported arm target boards.
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> However, if I'm using a silicon vendor, such as nxp, for a custom i.mx6
> board then I'll need to stick with nxp's kernel but the problem that I see
> here is that they may not support that version of kernel for too long.
>
> Are there any best practices or advice when it comes to how to avoid
> getting locked into an evil vendor kernel ?
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> You can try to check if needed support for the given SOC is upstreamed.
> Sometimes, vendor kernel have additional stuff but the base support is
> upstream, if you are lucky
> and dont need the things which are on top of such base port then you can
> try switching to kernel.org kernel and unshackles yourself.
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> Secondly, you can work with vendor to upstream the needed bits at
> priority, may be helping out with testing or whatever you can.
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> if vendor kernels are having too much stuff that is essential to support
> the basic stuff on chip then you are at the vendors behest for support,
> there may be
> some OSVs that can help may be or some other consultancies.
>
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> Thank you,
>
> Davis
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