On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 9:45 AM, Andrea Galbusera <giz...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! > > I was wondering how to apply some extra kernel configuration from a custom > layer via a bbappend. I know that with meta-raspberrypi there exist some > variables you can define in local.conf that will drive how the kernel is > configured: but what about some very specific device driver nobody than me > is interest in? To me it seems it doesn't deserve a dedicated global oe > variable. > > Some investigation showed this topic already came up on the list from time > to time in the past (most recently in [1]). To me it looks like there is > some common desire to get rid of the current "magic" carried out by > linux-rpi.inc by moving the linux-raspberrypi recipes into the configuration > fragments style. > > In the short term, my question are: how do you guys manage to add your > custom kernel configurations? Do you rely on full blown static defconfigs? > Have you found any reliable way to do "differential" configurations with the > current state of metadata? > > In a longer term, I'd really like to help moving towards supporting > configuration fragments for linux-raspberrypi, but I suspect it'd be a too > much hard task for my current understanding of the whole kernel > configuration workflow. Do you know of anyone already working on this or > does anyone have a clear idea of what is needed to get the work done? Some > times ago I tried to resurrect [2], but with no luck, probably due to some > changes that happened in the linux-yocto files in the meanwhile. > > Comments from gurus are welcome! ;-)
I have been hinting at using yocto kernel tooling. Idea is worth a pull request care sending one ? > > [1] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/yocto/2016-December/033559.html > [2] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/yocto/2015-October/027034.html > > -- > _______________________________________________ > yocto mailing list > yocto@yoctoproject.org > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto > -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto