Re: [meta-intel] [PATCH 2/2] meta-intel.inc: allow disabling of Intel microcode

2014-09-18 Thread Hart, Darren
On 9/17/14, 13:51, Kamble, Nitin A nitin.a.kam...@intel.com wrote: The problem with this of course is we can't use it easily with the common BSPs and ultimately we want to eliminate as many of the other BSPs as possible. What is the exact issue with microcode? How does it break certain systems

Re: [meta-intel] [PATCH 1/2] intel-corei7-64.conf: include the AMT daemon in the images

2014-09-18 Thread Hart, Darren
On 9/17/14, 15:52, Kamble, Nitin A nitin.a.kam...@intel.com wrote: On 9/17/14, 12:58 PM, Hart, Darren darren.h...@intel.com wrote: On 9/17/14, 12:44, Kamble, Nitin A nitin.a.kam...@intel.com wrote: From: Nitin A Kamble nitin.a.kam...@intel.com Some of the platforms supported by the intel

Re: [meta-intel] [PATCH 2/2] meta-intel.inc: allow disabling of Intel microcode

2014-09-18 Thread Hart, Darren
On 9/18/14, 9:18, Kamble, Nitin A nitin.a.kam...@intel.com wrote: On 9/18/14, 9:13 AM, Hart, Darren darren.h...@intel.com wrote: On 9/17/14, 13:51, Kamble, Nitin A nitin.a.kam...@intel.com wrote: The problem with this of course is we can't use it easily with the common BSPs and ultimately we

Re: [meta-intel] [PATCH 2/2] meta-intel.inc: allow disabling of Intel microcode

2014-09-17 Thread Hart, Darren
On 9/17/14, 13:23, Kamble, Nitin A nitin.a.kam...@intel.com wrote: No, we had this discussion. These BSPs need to build out of the box without special flags to disable feature that would otherwise break it on supported systems. If Microcode can't be enabled generically and safely, then it needs

Re: [meta-intel] [Patch v5 3/5] intel-microcode: a recipe for Intel microcode datafile

2014-09-02 Thread Hart, Darren
On 8/29/14, 10:22, Kamble, Nitin A nitin.a.kam...@intel.com wrote: From: Nitin A Kamble nitin.a.kam...@intel.com This recipe provides the microcode datafile for Intel Processors. The recipe provides: 1. microcode.dat file for microcode updating from user space with the iucode-tool utility.

Re: [meta-intel] [Patch v5 5/5] use the INITRD list mechanism for early microcode loading

2014-09-02 Thread Hart, Darren
On 9/2/14, 8:29, Kamble, Nitin A nitin.a.kam...@intel.com wrote: -Original Message- From: Burton, Ross [mailto:ross.bur...@intel.com] Sent: Monday, September 01, 2014 8:39 AM To: Kamble, Nitin A Cc: Zanussi, Tom; Hart, Darren; meta-intel@yoctoproject.org Subject: Re: [Patch v5 5/5

Re: [meta-intel] [Patch v4 4/6] image-ucode.bbclass: a new bbclass for initramfs images

2014-07-21 Thread Hart, Darren
On 7/21/14, 12:29, Burton, Ross ross.bur...@intel.com wrote: On 19 July 2014 01:18, nitin.a.kam...@intel.com wrote: +IMAGE_TYPES += cpio.gz.ucode +COMPRESSIONTYPES += gz.ucode +COMPRESS_CMD_gz.ucode = ${COMPRESS_CMD_gz}; cat ${EARLY_UCODE_CPIO} ${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.${type}.gz

Re: [meta-intel] [PATCH 1/1] image-ucode.bbclass: add dependency on the microcode cpio provider

2014-07-18 Thread Hart, Darren
On 7/18/14, 9:55, Kamble, Nitin A nitin.a.kam...@intel.com wrote: From: Nitin A Kamble nitin.a.kam...@intel.com The ${EARLY_UCODE_CPIO} file is generated by the intel-microcode recipe. Even though the intel-microcode recipe is included for every Intel BSP, mention it here additionally as it

Re: [meta-intel] [Patch v2 6/7] core-image-minimal-initramfs: extend to support early microcode loading

2014-07-18 Thread Hart, Darren
On 7/18/14, 10:59, Hart, Darren darren.h...@intel.com wrote: On 7/17/14, 15:27, Kamble, Nitin A nitin.a.kam...@intel.com wrote: +IMAGE_FSTYPES_meta-intel = cpio.gz.ucode -- 1.8.1.4 Hrm A meta-intel override... Do we need to introduce a layer override, or would the intel-common

Re: [meta-intel] [Patch v2 6/7] core-image-minimal-initramfs: extend to support early microcode loading

2014-07-18 Thread Hart, Darren
On 7/17/14, 15:27, Kamble, Nitin A nitin.a.kam...@intel.com wrote: +IMAGE_FSTYPES_meta-intel = cpio.gz.ucode -- 1.8.1.4 Hrm A meta-intel override... Do we need to introduce a layer override, or would the intel-common overrides be sufficient? It would reduce the complexity a bit.

Re: [meta-intel] [Patch v2 1/7] meta-intel BSPs: include meta-intel.inc

2014-07-11 Thread Hart, Darren
On 7/11/14, 11:59, Kamble, Nitin A nitin.a.kam...@intel.com wrote: From: Nitin A Kamble nitin.a.kam...@intel.com To get common intel BSP configurations such as user land microcode loading support, each Intel BSP configuration needs to include the meta-intel.inc file. With the exception of few,

Re: [meta-intel] [Patch v2 2/7] iucode-tool: a new recipe for loading Intel CPU microcode

2014-07-11 Thread Hart, Darren
On 7/11/14, 11:59, Kamble, Nitin A nitin.a.kam...@intel.com wrote: From: Nitin A Kamble nitin.a.kam...@intel.com iucode_tool is a program to manipulate Intel i686 and X86-64 processor microcode update collections, and to use the kernel facilities to update the microcode on Intel system

Re: [meta-intel] [Patch v2 3/7] intel-microcode: a recipe for Intel microcode datafile

2014-07-11 Thread Hart, Darren
On 7/11/14, 11:59, Kamble, Nitin A nitin.a.kam...@intel.com wrote: From: Nitin A Kamble nitin.a.kam...@intel.com This recipe provides the microcode datafile for Intel Processors. The recipe provides: 1. microcode.dat file for microcode updating from user space with the iucode-tool utility.

Re: [meta-intel] [Patch v2 4/7] meta-intel BSPs: enable user space microcode loading support

2014-07-11 Thread Hart, Darren
On 7/11/14, 11:59, Kamble, Nitin A nitin.a.kam...@intel.com wrote: From: Nitin A Kamble nitin.a.kam...@intel.com Enable user space microcode loading support for all the BSPs using the meta-intel.inc file. Signed-off-by: Nitin A Kamble nitin.a.kam...@intel.com ---

Re: [meta-intel] [Patch v2 6/7] core-image-minimal-initramfs: extend to support early microcode loading

2014-07-11 Thread Hart, Darren
On 7/11/14, 11:59, Kamble, Nitin A nitin.a.kam...@intel.com wrote: From: Nitin A Kamble nitin.a.kam...@intel.com Consumes the intel-earlyload-microcode-image to generate an initrd which is extended with the earlyload microcode support. This recipe now generates this additional initrd image:

Re: [meta-intel] [PATCH 2/3] emenlow-noemgd: linux-yocto_3.14: use standard/base machine branch

2014-05-13 Thread Hart, Darren
On 5/13/14, 10:31, Kamble, Nitin A nitin.a.kam...@intel.com wrote: From: Nitin A Kamble nitin.a.kam...@intel.com There is no need to use the standard/emenlow branch, as it points to the same commit as standard/base branch. Signed-off-by: Nitin A Kamble nitin.a.kam...@intel.com Acked-by: Darren

Re: [meta-intel] [PATCH 3/3] fri2-noemgd: linux-yocto_3.14: use standard/base machine branch

2014-05-13 Thread Hart, Darren
On 5/13/14, 10:32, Kamble, Nitin A nitin.a.kam...@intel.com wrote: From: Nitin A Kamble nitin.a.kam...@intel.com There is no need to use the standard/fri2 branch, as it points to the same commit as standard/base branch. Signed-off-by: Nitin A Kamble nitin.a.kam...@intel.com Acked-by: Darren

Re: [meta-intel] [PATCH 1/6] Remove chiefriver, sys940x n450 BSPs

2014-03-26 Thread Hart, Darren
On 3/25/14, 22:08, Kamble, Nitin A nitin.a.kam...@intel.com wrote: From: Nitin A Kamble nitin.a.kam...@intel.com Configuration for the chiefriver, sys940x, sys940x-noemgd, n450 BSPs are deleted. The consolidated BSPs viz intel-corei7-64 and intel-core2-32 support these boards. As part of the

Re: [meta-intel] [PATCH 2/6] emenlow: linux-yocto-3.10 update srcrevs to 3.10.33

2014-03-26 Thread Hart, Darren
On 3/25/14, 22:08, Kamble, Nitin A nitin.a.kam...@intel.com wrote: From: Nitin A Kamble nitin.a.kam...@intel.com Sync up with the latest branch HEADs on the linux-yocto_3.10 repository. Signed-off-by: Nitin A Kamble nitin.a.kam...@intel.com Hrm... Why are emgd and noemgd using different meta

Re: [meta-intel] [PATCH 4/6] nuc: linux-yocto-3.10 update srcrevs to 3.10.33

2014-03-26 Thread Hart, Darren
On 3/25/14, 22:08, Kamble, Nitin A nitin.a.kam...@intel.com wrote: From: Nitin A Kamble nitin.a.kam...@intel.com Sync up with the latest branch HEADs on the linux-yocto_3.10 repository. Signed-off-by: Nitin A Kamble nitin.a.kam...@intel.com ---

Re: [meta-intel] [PATCH 5/6] crownbay: linux-yocto-3.10 update srcrevs to 3.10.33

2014-03-26 Thread Hart, Darren
On 3/25/14, 22:08, Kamble, Nitin A nitin.a.kam...@intel.com wrote: From: Nitin A Kamble nitin.a.kam...@intel.com Even these should have commit messages. For example, see: commit f122b5a10114416c55d015305fdd011d86e71353 Author: Darren Hart dvh...@linux.intel.com Date: 2014-03-24 fri2:

Re: [meta-intel] [PATCH 6/6] common linux-yocto-3.10: specify kernel SRCREVs

2014-03-26 Thread Hart, Darren
On 3/25/14, 22:08, Kamble, Nitin A nitin.a.kam...@intel.com wrote: From: Nitin A Kamble nitin.a.kam...@intel.com Define the kernel branch SRCREVs in meta-intel layer, so that other layers can not break the common BSP kernel unknowingly. Using the latest HEADs of the git branches for SRCREVs.

Re: [meta-intel] Build failure

2014-03-17 Thread Hart, Darren
I believe I know what the issue is, I'll have a patch out by EOD. On 3/17/14, 2:22, Richard Purdie richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org wrote: After the recent linux-yocto-rt changes, we're seeing a build failure: http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/main/builders/nightly-intel-gpl/builds

Re: [meta-intel] [PATCH 4/6] lms7: update the source download URL

2014-03-06 Thread Hart, Darren
On 3/6/14, 12:52, Kamble, Nitin A nitin.a.kam...@intel.com wrote: -Original Message- From: Hart, Darren Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2014 11:08 PM To: Kamble, Nitin A; Zanussi, Tom; meta-intel@yoctoproject.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] lms7: update the source download URL On 3/5/14

Re: [meta-intel] [Patch v2 1/1] lms7: update the source download URL

2014-03-06 Thread Hart, Darren
On 3/6/14, 13:51, Kamble, Nitin A nitin.a.kam...@intel.com wrote: From: Nitin A Kamble nitin.a.kam...@intel.com The old URL is not working anymore. Using a new URL for source zip file. Signed-off-by: Nitin A Kamble nitin.a.kam...@intel.com Acked-by: Darren Hart dvh...@linux.intel.com --

Re: [meta-intel] [PATCH 3/6] alsa-state: ALSA config for intel-corei7-64 BSP

2014-03-05 Thread Hart, Darren
On 3/5/14, 17:58, Kamble, Nitin A nitin.a.kam...@intel.com wrote: From: Nitin A Kamble nitin.a.kam...@intel.com Provide ALSA config file for intel-corei7-64 BSP which enables ALSA sound on hardware like NUC. This is HIGHLY machine specific unless I am sorely mistaken, this should not be made

Re: [meta-intel] [PATCH 4/6] lms7: update the source download URL

2014-03-05 Thread Hart, Darren
On 3/5/14, 17:58, Kamble, Nitin A nitin.a.kam...@intel.com wrote: From: Nitin A Kamble nitin.a.kam...@intel.com The old URL is not working anymore. Using a new URL for source zip file. Signed-off-by: Nitin A Kamble nitin.a.kam...@intel.com --- common/recipes-bsp/amt/lms7_7.1.20.bb | 2 +- 1

Re: [meta-intel] [PATCH 5/6] nuc BSP: include AMT 8+ support

2014-03-05 Thread Hart, Darren
On 3/5/14, 17:58, Kamble, Nitin A nitin.a.kam...@intel.com wrote: From: Nitin A Kamble nitin.a.kam...@intel.com Include support for Intel Active Management Technology version 8+ on the NUC BSP. Signed-off-by: Nitin A Kamble nitin.a.kam...@intel.com Acked-by: Darren Hart dvh...@linux.intel.com

Re: [meta-intel] [PATCH 4/6] lms7: update the source download URL

2014-03-05 Thread Hart, Darren
On 3/5/14, 20:58, Kamble, Nitin A nitin.a.kam...@intel.com wrote: On 3/5/2014 7:48 PM, Hart, Darren wrote: On 3/5/14, 17:58, Kamble, Nitin A nitin.a.kam...@intel.com wrote: From: Nitin A Kamble nitin.a.kam...@intel.com The old URL is not working anymore. Using a new URL for source zip file

Re: [meta-intel] [PATCH 3/6] alsa-state: ALSA config for intel-corei7-64 BSP

2014-03-05 Thread Hart, Darren
On 3/5/14, 20:56, Kamble, Nitin A nitin.a.kam...@intel.com wrote: On 3/5/2014 7:47 PM, Hart, Darren wrote: On 3/5/14, 17:58, Kamble, Nitin A nitin.a.kam...@intel.com wrote: From: Nitin A Kamble nitin.a.kam...@intel.com Provide ALSA config file for intel-corei7-64 BSP which enables ALSA

Re: [meta-intel] Next Gen Intel BSPs

2014-02-25 Thread Hart, Darren
On 2/25/14, 21:44, Zanussi, Tom tom.zanu...@intel.com wrote: On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 20:56 -0600, Tom Zanussi wrote: On Tue, 2014-02-11 at 18:18 -0600, Hart, Darren wrote: All, I have just pushed the next-gen Intel BSP changes following the meta commits to linux-yocto-dev and linux-yocto

Re: [meta-intel] Next Gen Intel BSPs (GMA600 on TunnelCreek)

2014-02-25 Thread Hart, Darren
Scott, question for you below... On 2/25/14, 21:56, Zanussi, Tom tom.zanu...@intel.com wrote: On Tue, 2014-02-25 at 07:48 -0600, Hart, Darren wrote: On 2/25/14, 21:44, Zanussi, Tom tom.zanu...@intel.com wrote: On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 20:56 -0600, Tom Zanussi wrote: On Tue, 2014-02-11 at 18

Re: [meta-intel] Next Gen Intel BSPs

2014-02-21 Thread Hart, Darren
On 2/20/14, 18:56, Zanussi, Tom tom.zanu...@intel.com wrote: On Tue, 2014-02-11 at 18:18 -0600, Hart, Darren wrote: All, I have just pushed the next-gen Intel BSP changes following the meta commits to linux-yocto-dev and linux-yocto-3.10. Changes include: 1) New common BSPs: intel

Re: [meta-intel] grub-efi change pending

2013-12-11 Thread Hart, Darren
Thanks for the heads up! Saul Wold s...@linux.intel.com wrote: Guys, We have a change pending in MUT which will rename the grub-efi-native to grub-efi, this will affect meta-intel as some BSP might have a .bbappend file. Can you have a look at

Re: [meta-intel] [PATCH] ia32-base: Remove cpio and ext3 defaults

2013-11-21 Thread Hart, Darren
On Thu, 2013-11-21 at 15:25 +, Richard Purdie wrote: On real IA hardware, neither the ext3 or cpio images are particularly useful or used. cpio is legacy from initramfs and that specific image now overrides FSTYPES accordingly. The size difference in filesystems makes ext3 as a file format