On 04/09/2015 06:31 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
On Thu, 2015-04-09 at 16:52 -0500, Pan Lijun-B44306 wrote:
Hi Maintainers,

We have a proposal for writing the defconfigs for freescale's powperpc 
platforms in a new way.
Can you take a look and provide some feedback?

You know currently we have mpc85xx_defconfig, corenet32_defconfig, 
bsc913x_defconfig, *fman*_defconfig, etc.
We are going to extract some common parts from the existing defconfigs, and 
name it, say, fsl_basic_defconfig.
Then, we could create some defconfigs targeting specific features or specific 
platforms.
Say, features specific: kvm_defconfig, fman_defconfig, etc.
Platforms specific: p1_defconfig, p2_defcongfig, p4_defconfig, t1_defconfig, 
t2_defconfig, t2_defconfig, b4_defconfig, etc
When we want to make a kernel image for p1 platform,
Using the following steps:

make ./scripts/kconfig/merge_config.sh arch/powerpc/configs/fsl_basic_config 
p1_defconfig
make

What do you think of this new approach?
Will you accept this approach?

I'm OK with a merge_config approach.

I'm not OK with having separate builds for p1/p2/p4/t1/t2/b4.

-Scott


As you probably know, Freescale makes use of the Yocto Project build system for its SDK and submits patches to the SDK at a public meta-fsl-ppc repo at http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-fsl-ppc/

I have seen some kernel related patches in the past come across the Yocto Project site that made use of the Yocto Project kernel tools, which includes a process for maintaining kernel configuration fragments. It sounds like the requirements you have could be met with Yocto's existing process.

I was hoping to see Freescale continue to move in the direction of using the Yocto kernel tools rather than roll its own solution.

The Yocto kernel tools make use of description files (*.scc) and configuration fragments (*.cfg).

Here is a link to the latest stable Yocto kernel development manual: http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.7.1/kernel-dev/kernel-dev.html

Bob







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