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Here is the meta-intel-edison that builds, tries to stay up to date. Master is based on Yocto Poky Gatesgarth LTS 5.10.yy vanilla kernels. It builds a 32bit kernel (Gatesgarth branch 64bit) with ACPI enabled and corresponding rootfs. Telegram group: https://t.me/IntelEdison Web-site:
https://edison-fw.github.io/meta-intel-edison/
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Dunfell #126

Closed htot closed 3 years ago

htot commented 3 years ago

This is the update to Yocto Dunfell. Documentation for now is here: https://htot.github.io/meta-intel-edison/

This time we have mostly fixes (btrfsFlashOta) and cleanups (removed clloader, sketch-check, mcu-fw). Of course updates to U-Boot and Linux + added a preempt-rt kernel. Oobe is finally working again (point browser to http://edison/). Blink-led is now a kernel module.

And Debian image is now a btrfs snapshot, so you can dual boot Debian/Yocto.

htot commented 3 years ago

Hi @andy-shev

  1. You mean "The fix e5f4ca3fce90 broke Intel Edison host mode" on linux-usb ML. Was there any follow up on that? I didn't consider that that might affect us. I will investigate.
  2. That sounds like a very good idea. Do you think we should go back to 5.10? If you ask me 5.11.0 is working better then 5.10.0. But maybe 5.10.23 is even better.
andy-shev commented 3 years ago
  1. You mean "The fix e5f4ca3fce90 broke Intel Edison host mode" on linux-usb ML. Was there any follow up on that? I didn't consider that that might affect us. I will investigate.

Yes. It affects all OTG (automatically switched) boards. I have three different here :-)

  1. That sounds like a very good idea. Do you think we should go back to 5.10? If you ask me 5.11.0 is working better then 5.10.0. But maybe 5.10.23 is even better.

For the release, I prefer to see v5.10.24+, yes. Leave newest kernel for devel/experimental branch.

htot commented 3 years ago

Yes. It affects all OTG (automatically switched) boards. I have three different here :-)

Ok, may be you can point me to the issue so I can reproduce by separate mail?

For the release, I prefer to see v5.10.24+, yes. Leave newest kernel for devel/experimental branch.

But of course our images are a combination of kernel, U-boot and Yocto with each their own support policy. For instance Yocto Zeus is already no longer actively maintained. Yocto planned 2 year LTS for Dunfell but I didn't see this followed up, so might also EOL in April 2021.

So IMHO whatever we do an image will be frozen to a certain kernel release. But it does make sense to select a LTS kernel that has more or less calmed down.

andy-shev commented 3 years ago

Yes. It affects all OTG (automatically switched) boards. I have three different here :-)

Ok, may be you can point me to the issue so I can reproduce by separate mail?

I dunno if you can reproduce on Arduino, but basically with that patch the host mode doesn't see the connected devices.

For the release, I prefer to see v5.10.24+, yes. Leave newest kernel for devel/experimental branch.

But of course our images are a combination of kernel, U-boot and Yocto with each their own support policy. For instance Yocto Zeus is already no longer actively maintained. Yocto planned 2 year LTS for Dunfell but I didn't see this followed up, so might also EOL in April 2021.

So IMHO whatever we do an image will be frozen to a certain kernel release. But it does make sense to select a LTS kernel that has more or less calmed down.

You mean that Yocto itself chooses non-LTS kernel releases? Then we at least may do better. U-Boot OTOH doesn't make any difference (they simple don't have LTS, effectivelly means whatever release of U-Boot on the release date of our stuff will be the best one, just don't update it in named branches).

htot commented 3 years ago

You mean that Yocto itself chooses non-LTS kernel releases? Then we at least may do better. U-Boot OTOH doesn't make any difference (they simple don't have LTS, effectivelly means whatever release of U-Boot on the release date of our stuff will be the best one, just don't update it in named branches).

Yocto Project provides for Dunfell linux 5.4.98. Gatesgarth adds 5.8.18. Indeed I think it is good do a more recent kernel in our layer.

But I meant Dunfell has a certain set of libs, systemd and other tools that after a time receive no more updates and are downloaded from certain sources. After a while it will not even build any more due to sources disappearing and people need to move to a newer Yocto release. That's why meta-intel-edison is constantly updated. And free of charge results to newer kernel :-)

The real value of a LTS kernel for us is that it has received lots of testing.

htot commented 3 years ago

Merged