On Wed, 2020-09-23 at 10:22 -0700, Randy Witt wrote: > While looking into upgrading rt-tests to the latest version, on IRC, John > Kacur(the maintainer of rt-tests), recommended "that they use > unstable/devel/latest as the maintained stable branch". > > I updated the recipes in > http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/commit/?h=rewitt/rt-tests-upgrade&id=551b25918d06c903fff22d76d5683b548c4f2e6f. > > However, I know this won't work as is, due to the issues below. > > The latest version of rt-tests requires the numa libraries for compilation > via > this patch https://marc.info/?l=linux-rt-users&m=158335896221530&w=2. > rt-tests > exists in oe-core, but numactl which provides libnuma/numa.h exists in > meta-openembedded. > > Another issue is that ARM is removed from COMPATIBLE_HOST in > http://cgit.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded/tree/meta-oe/recipes-support/numactl/numactl_git.bb?h=master#n27. > > This may be for legacy reasons, but libnuma can be installed on most > distributions running on an ARM host. Regardless, it would need to be changed > to > allow for rt-tests on ARM. > > I'm therefore trying to determine how to proceed to upgrade rt-tests. These > are > the options I thought of, which are most likely not exhaustive. > > 1. Bring numactl into oe-core > 2. move rt-tests out of oe-core > 3. TMy to patch out the numa requirement and carry it forever(doesn't appear > to > be a small task)
I'd probably lean to 1, we do need to figure out the situation on arm support though... Cheers, Richard
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