On 04/28/2011 02:25 AM, Richard Purdie wrote: > 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.
Excellent. Added to my todo list for the not toooo distant future. > > Cheers, > > Richard > > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core -- Darren Hart Intel Open Source Technology Center Yocto Project - Linux Kernel _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
