Re: [linux-yocto] Locating kernel metadata

2013-09-01 Thread Bruce Ashfield
On 13-09-01 8:32 AM, Peter A. Bigot wrote: Thanks for the additional information. My entire expectation of how linux-yocto metadata worked turns out to be wrong, but you've managed to clear it up for me. What I really wanted from linux-yocto was a way to isolate documented kernel configuration f

Re: [linux-yocto] Locating kernel metadata

2013-09-01 Thread Peter A. Bigot
Thanks for the additional information. My entire expectation of how linux-yocto metadata worked turns out to be wrong, but you've managed to clear it up for me. What I really wanted from linux-yocto was a way to isolate documented kernel configuration fragments to share configuration data amon

Re: [linux-yocto] Locating kernel metadata

2013-08-31 Thread Bruce Ashfield
On 13-08-31 12:07 PM, Peter A. Bigot wrote: Thanks; I'm starting to understand. It makes more sense to know this all pre-dates Yocto (and maybe its use within bitbake/OE). heh. It first existed in 2006, in one form or another. The Yocto mapping is the latest incarnation of the tools. So it has

Re: [linux-yocto] Locating kernel metadata

2013-08-31 Thread Peter A. Bigot
Thanks; I'm starting to understand. It makes more sense to know this all pre-dates Yocto (and maybe its use within bitbake/OE). I've generated a lot of text below, but I think the priority for 1.5 should be to enhance the documention of the current approach, rather than try to address any of

[linux-yocto] Locating kernel metadata

2013-08-30 Thread Peter A. Bigot
I want the ability to have a BSP layer linux-yocto_3.10.bbappend which supports a new machine by providing a BSP scc file and some BSP-specific overrides in recipe space that re-use and where necessary override features that exist in the standard meta hierarchy. There is some previous discussi

Re: [linux-yocto] Locating kernel metadata

2013-08-30 Thread Bruce Ashfield
On 13-08-30 03:33 PM, Peter A. Bigot wrote: I want the ability to have a BSP layer linux-yocto_3.10.bbappend which supports a new machine by providing a BSP scc file and some BSP-specific overrides in recipe space that re-use and where necessary override features that exist in the standard meta h