On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 01:45:24PM -0700, Drew Fustini wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 03:51:02PM -0400, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 08:22:01AM -0500, Nishanth Menon wrote:
> > > On 23:18-20220718, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> > > > I was thinking that instead of keying off of ARAGO_BRAND=mainline,
> > > > which
> > > > is very specific to Arago distro, long term we should instead key off
> > > > of
> > > > PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel=linux-ti-mainline, that is specific
> > > > to
> > > > meta-ti... Thoughts?
> > >
> > >
> > > We'd want mainline kernel, u-boot, tf-a, optee ..... as many upstream
> > > components as possible. is there a way to create a virtual package group
> > > that points to all upstream base components?
> > >
> > > I am looking for ways we can enable this beyond just arago brand.
> >
> > My understanding is that tf-a and optee were initially forked for K3
> > development, but these days are pretty much the same as upstream.
> >
> > And optee is already pulling code from upstream, just pinning down to a
> > specific version and doing some extra TI-specific signing on top.
> >
> > As of tf-a, I'd recommend dropping git.ti.com fork completely and pulling
> > from upstream, if possible.
> >
> > But kernel/U-boot is a bit more involved. Those are done as multiple
> > providers and require switching corresponding PREFERRED_PROVIDER
> > variables.
> >
> > Either way, for testing which kernel is being built (ti-staging or
> > mainline)
> > and which U-boot (ti-staging or mainline), checking PREFERRED_PROVIDER
> > should be doable and Distro-agnostic.
>
> Thank you for the suggestion.
>
> Would the conditional then being something like this?
>
> ${@oe.utils.conditional('PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel',
> 'linux-ti-mainline', '', 'dra71-evm-nand.dtb', d)}
LGTM. Thanks
--
Denys
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