On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 3:44 PM, Paul Eggleton <paul.eggle...@linux.intel.com> wrote: > On Mon, 31 Oct 2016 15:36:24 Khem Raj wrote: >> > On Oct 31, 2016, at 2:59 PM, Paul Eggleton <paul.eggle...@linux.intel.com> >> > wrote:> >> > On Mon, 31 Oct 2016 09:37:07 Khem Raj wrote: >> >>> On Oct 31, 2016, at 7:37 AM, Vuille, Martin (Martin) <vmar...@avaya.com> >> >>> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> We are looking at upgrading from Yocto 1.8 to 2.2. >> >>> >> >>> Yocto 2.2 has a minimum kernel requirement of 3.2.0. >> >>> >> >>> This isn’t an issue for our target (ARMv5, Linux 4.4) but may be >> >>> an issue for our automated build machines (x86, Linux 2.6.32—CentOS 6.) >> >>> >> >>> However, there is a note that says >> >>> “For x86 and x86_64, you can reset OLDEST_KERNEL >> >>> <http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/2.2/mega-manual/mega-manual.html#var-O >> >>> L >> >>> DEST_KERNEL> to anything down to 2.6.32 if desired.” >> >>> >> >>> Is it possible to configure things such that we can keep supporting the >> >>> old kernel for the SDK while we support a more up-to-date kernel for the >> >>> target? >> >> >> >> I think that should be the default. We do not set it for x86/nativesdk >> >> case. File a ticket if thats not the case. >> > >> > SDK_OLDEST_KERNEL is the variable that's supposed to be controlling this, >> > but I noticed a couple of weeks ago that we aren't feeding >> > SDK_OLDEST_KERNEL into glibc for nativesdk, so we should fix that - I've >> > filed a bug [1] and will sort that out. I think we should probably set >> > the SDK_OLDEST_KERNEL default for x86 to 2.6.32 at the same time - I >> > assume there are no objections? >> >> Yes, its for nativesdk/glibc, I think for target x86 we should keep 3.2 > > Right, I'm not proposing changing the target value. > > It turns out setting SDK_OLDEST_KERNEL in an arch-specific manner is a little > awkward since there aren't overrides that can be used for the SDK value, but > we can do it from conf/machine-sdk/*.conf though. >
yes understood, we do have aarch64 as another option for nativesdk but practically not there yet I guess. > Cheers, > Paul > > -- > > Paul Eggleton > Intel Open Source Technology Centre -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto