On Wed, 2013-06-19 at 16:09 -0700, Paul D. DeRocco wrote:

From: Tom Zanussi

On Tue, 2013-06-18 at 20:50 +0100, Chris Tapp wrote:

Hi Tom,

On 18 Jun 2013, at 15:04, Tom Zanussi wrote:

On Mon, 2013-06-17 at 16:56 -0700, Paul D. DeRocco wrote:

I've been using the Intel meta-cedartrail layer with

Danny 8.0.1. Is this

layer likely to be unusable with Dylan 9.0? Or unusable

without lots of

tinkering that's probably beyond my abilities?

And if I were to try Dylan, is it best to start from

scratch, in a

completely new directory?

Hi,

I believe the main problem would be the graphics driver -

it would need

porting to the 3.8 kernel - the rest would probably be

straightforward.

The cedartrail BSP was discontinued following danny, but

I'm cc:ing the

maintainers in case they might have any further input.

I was thinking of creating a meta-intel/staging area for

things like

this i.e. discontinued BSPs that people are still using,

which would

contain best-effort updates but completely without

promise of any kind

of support. If there's enough interest, and there seems

to be judging

from the number of questions about cedartrail we continue to keep
getting, I'll try to find some free time to take a stab

at moving it to

dylan...

I'm certainly interested and happy to help out if I can.

I also see that ASRock are now making a board

(http://www.asrock.com/IPC/overview.asp?Model=DN2800MT) that
looks exactly the same as the Intel one with the same name
aimed at signage and thin-client applications, so hardware
will be about for a good few years yet,

OK, good to know. The only Cedar Trail hardware I have
access to is the
Acer Aspire One I have here - let me see if I can get
something going on
that...

My first attempt to build cedartrail-nopvr finds that meta-intel has an
unmatched mesa_9.1.3.bbappend, but I suppose I can configure it to ignore
that since I'm not building graphics. However, meta-cedartrail contains an
unmatched linux-yocto_3.0.bbappend and linux-yocto-rt_3.0.bbappend. I don't
know how to fix that.

You should just be able to delete those 3.0 .bbappends - they're of no
use at this point.

I actually used yocto-bsp to create a brand new cedartrail BSP, called
meta-cdt, with just a vesa graphics machine called 'cdt-vesa':

http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-intel-contrib/log/?h=tzanussi/meta-cdt-v0

It built fine here, but it wouldn't boot on my Aspire One, but I
couldn't boot either of the official 'danny' cedartrail (cedartrail and
cedartrail-nopvr) images I built either.

I'd be curious if the meta-cdt layer would work for you, though.

Tom