Hi Khem, That makes sense.
Thank you for replying! -Davis On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 1:46 PM, Khem Raj <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Oct 20, 2016, at 10:32 AM, Davis Roman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Yocto Community, > > 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. > > 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 ? > > > 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. > > Secondly, you can work with vendor to upstream the needed bits at > priority, may be helping out with testing or whatever you can. > > 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. > > > Thank you, > > Davis > > > > > > > > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > yocto mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto > > >
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