Similiae to the layer code we simplify the machine include to work
for all versions of a 1.5 release. Poky 1.5.4 has been released and
we don't want to continue to play this game.
We want to enable the watchdog in the bootloader already and
for this to be failsafe we need to have a kernel that can boot
and get ethernet without any additional modules. Now systemd
would not be able to trigger the watchdog and the system would
reboot within 60 seconds. I am not sure how the kernel upgrade
will go and we need to try this.
Related: SYS#374
We need a jffs2/ubi depending on the age of the hardware and
maybe a tar.bz2 so we can easily inspect an image without
playing with mtdram. We almost never need a ubifs and certainly
not a cpio.
The DISTRO_FEATURES_INITMAN variable has been removed, use
VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_init_manager which is still present. We have
already defined the later in our poky builds
This is the latest stable kernel. I had hoped some crashes to
go away with it but it turns out to be a compiler issue that
we backported a patch for separately.
* The Linux 3.2.X kernel has some funny issues with GCC 4.8 in the
fs/namei.c look up code. It is easier to move to 3.10 than to fully
debug the issue.
* disable the mISDN loop patch for v3.10
* use the hack to make v3.2 compilable for edison and v3.10 for dora
Provide custom systemd config files to enable the watchdog handling. For
systemd we depend on the image containing and using systemd as init script.
In case we build images without systemd we will need to install the
old watchdog. Maybe it is time to create a MACHINE_FEATURE for watchdog.
The modules depend on kernel-base (renamed kernel-3.2.35) package,
the tasks depend on some modules and nothing needed the kernel package.
In OE Core/Poky the machines depend on kernel-modules which will pull
the kernel package into the rootfs. We do it by hand using the essential
depends and bumping the PR for the task-core-boot.
I have verified that on a kernel ugrade task-core-boot will be updated
and the kernel package is installed.