Re: [OE-core] linux-yocto task performance numbers

2015-02-23 Thread Hart, Darren
On 2/22/15, 5:04 AM, Richard Purdie richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org wrote: As people know, I've been looking at performance a little, one of the benchmarks is how long the kernel takes to build. I dumped out the task performance data from buildstats for a linux-yocto build (nothing else

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] image: Add missing depends on virtual/kernel for depmod data

2015-01-27 Thread Hart, Darren
On 1/27/15, 8:18 AM, Richard Purdie richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org wrote: On Tue, 2015-01-27 at 15:48 +, Hart, Darren wrote: On 1/27/15, 7:45 AM, Bruce Ashfield bruce.ashfi...@windriver.com wrote: On 15-01-27 10:29 AM, Richard Purdie wrote: We need the depmod data so that the kernel

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] image: Add missing depends on virtual/kernel for depmod data

2015-01-27 Thread Hart, Darren
On 1/27/15, 7:45 AM, Bruce Ashfield bruce.ashfi...@windriver.com wrote: On 15-01-27 10:29 AM, Richard Purdie wrote: We need the depmod data so that the kernel depmod command works successfully at rootfs time. The fact this was working inconsistently is now highlighted after the command was

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] kernel/image/depmodwrapper: Fixups for depmod

2015-01-20 Thread Hart, Darren
On 1/20/15, 6:16 AM, Bruce Ashfield bruce.ashfi...@windriver.com wrote: On 15-01-20 08:33 AM, Richard Purdie wrote: With the rpm package backend enabled, running: bitbake image bitbake virtual/kernel -c clean bitbake image -c rootfs -f results in an image with incorrect kernel module

Re: [OE-core] RFC: Further kernel build process changes?

2015-01-12 Thread Hart, Darren
On 1/12/15, 5:27 PM, Robert Yang liezhi.y...@windriver.com wrote: On 01/13/2015 09:19 AM, Robert Yang wrote: On 01/07/2015 08:26 PM, Richard Purdie wrote: I'm hearing (somewhat justified) complaints that the recent kernel changes have destablised builds. Part of the question is whether

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] INITRD var: make it a list of filesystem images

2014-08-05 Thread Hart, Darren
On 8/4/14, 21:33, Kamble, Nitin A nitin.a.kam...@intel.com wrote: On 8/4/2014 9:38 AM, Hart, Darren wrote: On 7/29/14, 11:34, Kamble, Nitin A nitin.a.kam...@intel.com wrote: ... + if [ -n ${INITRD} ]; then + rm -f $dest/initrd + for fs in ${INITRD} + do

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 1/2] INITRD var: documentation changes

2014-08-05 Thread Hart, Darren
On 8/5/14, 14:39, Kamble, Nitin A nitin.a.kam...@intel.com wrote: From: Nitin A Kamble nitin.a.kam...@intel.com The use of the INITRD variable is changed in a recent commit. Instead of specifying a single filesystem image, it specifies a list of file system images. Reflecting this change in the

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 2/2] code cleanup for INITRD variable handing

2014-08-05 Thread Hart, Darren
On 8/5/14, 14:39, Kamble, Nitin A nitin.a.kam...@intel.com wrote: From: Nitin A Kamble nitin.a.kam...@intel.com * Remove an unnecessary check * Instead of ignoring, report the errors This isn't enough to ask for a resend, but please be a bit more explicit in what is going on in future commit

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] INITRD var: make it a list of filesystem images

2014-08-04 Thread Hart, Darren
On 7/29/14, 11:34, Kamble, Nitin A nitin.a.kam...@intel.com wrote: From: Nitin A Kamble nitin.a.kam...@intel.com Hi Nitin, Generally speaking this looks like a good improvement. I don't have any major technical concerns, but we do need to address some grammatical issues in the commit and the

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] kernel-module-split: Add support for KERNEL_MODULE_AUTOLOAD and KERNEL_MODULE_PROBECONF

2014-06-17 Thread Hart, Darren
On 6/13/14, 12:13, Denys Dmytriyenko de...@denix.org wrote: On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 03:02:05PM -0400, Bruce Ashfield wrote: On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 11:46 AM, Richard Purdie richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org wrote: The current module_autoload_* and module_conf_* variables are error both

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] meta-skeleton: linux-yocto-custom.bb: use machine overrides

2014-04-15 Thread Hart, Darren
On 4/15/14, 9:54, Paul Eggleton paul.eggle...@linux.intel.com wrote: On Friday 11 April 2014 10:53:17 Kamble, Nitin A wrote: On 4/11/2014 10:48 AM, Bruce Ashfield wrote: On 14-04-11 01:05 PM, nitin.a.kam...@intel.com wrote: From: Nitin A Kamble nitin.a.kam...@intel.com Use machine

Re: [OE-core] [Patch v2 1/1] meta-skeleton: linux-yocto-custom.bb: use machine overrides

2014-04-13 Thread Hart, Darren
Indeed, because the SRCURI was made machine specific. In the case of Linux Yocto custom... Their is no namespace pollution to worry about, as there is with Linux Yocto... Should we perhaps drop all the overrides and provide comented examples instead? On Apr 13, 2014 8:39 AM, Richard Purdie

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] meta-skeleton: linux-yocto-custom.bb: use machine overrides

2014-04-11 Thread Hart, Darren
On 4/11/14, 10:05, Kamble, Nitin A nitin.a.kam...@intel.com wrote: From: Nitin A Kamble nitin.a.kam...@intel.com Use machine overrides for variables for this skeleton recipe so that people following skeleton do it right at the beginning. The machine overrides for the variables reduces pollution

Re: [OE-core] [Patch v2 1/1] meta-skeleton: linux-yocto-custom.bb: use machine overrides

2014-04-11 Thread Hart, Darren
On 4/11/14, 10:59, Kamble, Nitin A nitin.a.kam...@intel.com wrote: From: Nitin A Kamble nitin.a.kam...@intel.com Use machine overrides for variables for this skeleton kernel recipe so that people following skeleton do it right at the beginning. The machine overrides for the variables reduces

[OE-core] libnewt and kexec-tools do_compile failure, missing DEPENDS?

2014-03-19 Thread Hart, Darren
I tripped over a couple of do_compile failures today with lib newt and kexec-tools from master. After letting the -k image build complete and performing a clean all on the two packages, the subsequent build command succeeded. I suspect we have a missing DEPENDS in there that my modestly parallel

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] kernel: use oldnoconfig instead of yes '' | make oldconfig

2014-01-07 Thread Hart, Darren
On Tue, 2014-01-07 at 16:54 +0100, Martin Jansa wrote: On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 04:20:37PM +0100, Alexandre Belloni wrote: On 07/01/2014 15:35, Martin Jansa wrote: On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 03:18:37PM +0100, Alexandre Belloni wrote: When using a defconfig, using yes '' | make oldconfig may

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] kernel: use oldnoconfig instead of yes '' | make oldconfig

2014-01-07 Thread Hart, Darren
On Tue, 2014-01-07 at 21:32 +0100, Alexandre Belloni wrote: On 07/01/2014 19:11, Hart, Darren wrote: Please check for the functionality, not KERNEL_VERSION. The KERNEL_VERSION doesn't allow for backports and such which might add this ability. Grep the Makefile for the target, for example

Re: [OE-core] distro/machine:kernel feature mapping and version checking

2013-11-22 Thread Hart, Darren
On Fri, 2013-11-22 at 11:05 +, Paul Eggleton wrote: Hi Darren, On Thursday 21 November 2013 18:47:07 Hart, Darren wrote: Regarding the following 2 bugs: https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5574 Add kernel version / configuration check mechanism and https

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] ia32-base: Remove cpio and ext3 defaults

2013-11-21 Thread Hart, Darren
On Thu, 2013-11-21 at 15:25 +, Richard Purdie wrote: On real IA hardware, neither the ext3 or cpio images are particularly useful or used. cpio is legacy from initramfs and that specific image now overrides FSTYPES accordingly. The size difference in filesystems makes ext3 as a file format

[OE-core] distro/machine:kernel feature mapping and version checking

2013-11-21 Thread Hart, Darren
All, Regarding the following 2 bugs: https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5574 Add kernel version / configuration check mechanism and https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2267 Integrate DISTRO_FEATURES with KERNEL_FEATURES There is a need to reduce errors where a

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] kernel: Use hardlinks during do_install for speed

2013-11-08 Thread Hart, Darren
On Fri, 2013-11-08 at 15:17 +, Richard Purdie wrote: Whilst the comment says we can't do this, its incorrect, install operates on WORKDIR and its hard for different parts of WORKDIR to be on different Is it hard? Or is it not possible / not supported? My understanding was it was possible

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] kernel: Use hardlinks for do_populate_sysroot for speed

2013-11-08 Thread Hart, Darren
On Fri, 2013-11-08 at 16:50 +, Richard Purdie wrote: On Fri, 2013-11-08 at 10:59 -0500, Bruce Ashfield wrote: On 13-11-08 10:55 AM, Richard Purdie wrote: On Fri, 2013-11-08 at 10:41 -0500, Bruce Ashfield wrote: On 13-11-08 10:18 AM, Richard Purdie wrote: The kernel tree is large