On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 10:51 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Darren Hart <dvh...@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > On 04/25/2011 10:14 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
> >
> > Right, so for clarification, for 2.4 kernels, images should be built
> > using just the modutils_2.4.27.bb recipe. For 2.6 kernels, images should
> > be built using module_init_tools and modutils-initscripts.
> >
> > In oe-core, task-base requires module-init-tools and task-core-boot
> > requires modutils-initscripts. That actually seems backwards to me as
> > modutils-initscripts is useless without module-init-tools.
> >
> > There is a considerable amount of cruft in the kernel base classes
> > related to older kernels which I'd like to see purged. Perhaps a
> > meta-linux-2.4 layer would be a good place to keep things like these as
> > well as the modutils_2.4.27 recipe.
> 
> Do we have usecases to even support 2.4 anymore ? I would suggest
> to remove it if no use cases are reported.

I think the time has come for OE-Core to clean out kernel.bbclass of the
2.4 code. If anyone does want to support 2.4, they can do it with a
separate kernel-2.4 class.

Cheers,

Richard


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