I think the last device we sold was in 2011 and I am not aware
if anyone has used it for the last couple of years. Remove it
to lower the complexity of the builds.
We want to use backported modules this means we need to make
some thing a module for it to work. Take Daniel's .config file,
run make savedefconfig and update our defconfig.
Related: SYS#850
Go back to have our own do_configure. The kernel.bbclass would
execute "oldnoconfig" where we simply executed "oldconfig". Keep
on using our old way (for the legacy of it). E.g. with the question
how we ended up having SMP enabled in the BSC build this might
be the answer.
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 will change the MTD partitioning for our devices soon. The
kernel needs to honor the cmdline given by the kernel for that.
The rootfs will move a few pages to the back with newer bootloaders.
This currently requires the meta-ti layer but we will make sure
that nothing from it will be required in the end. The kernel is
based on linux-3.2 as this is the "default" TI kernel that supports
the SGX (not that we care)
* 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
Holger Hans Peter Freyther
Harald Welte
Daniel Willmann
Henning Heinold