genericarmv8 kernel patches doesn't apply to 3.8-rc4

[Fathi Boudra]

The patches applied to the kernel need to be reviewed/updated for 3.8 kernel.
e.g. 0008-arm64-Distinguish-between-user-and-kernel-XN-bits.patch has been merged in 3.7-rc6

Note: OE shuld switch to linux-linaro kernel instead of mainline.

[Marcin Juszkiewicz (hrw)]

Those patches are snapshot of aarch64-soc support and as such need to be updated if kernel has to be updated.

And we do not release OE kernel I think that switching to linux-linaro HEAD would add extra work to mantain without any benefits. We have out-of-OE linux-linaro kernel for release.

Unless we have to update OE kernel to use it release - in that case I am fine with updating it.

[Fathi Boudra (fboudra)]

On 21 January 2013 09:56, Marcin Juszkiewicz <email address hidden> wrote:
> Those patches are snapshot of aarch64-soc support and as such need to be
> updated if kernel has to be updated.
>
> And we do not release OE kernel I think that switching to linux-linaro
> HEAD would add extra work to maintain without any benefits. We have out-
> of-OE linux-linaro kernel for release.
>
> Unless we have to update OE kernel to use it release - in that case I am
> fine with updating it.

It's confusing to have a kernel in OE that isn't in sync with the one out-of-oe.
We still maintain only one tree (linux-linaro) but keep OE kernel
source/config/patches on par.

The maintainance will consist to keep defconfig up-to-date (SRC_URI
will point to linux-linaro, patches will be dropped).
I suspect keeping defconfig up-to-date could be automated.

[Fathi Boudra (fboudra)]

Relevant changes:
http://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=openembedded/meta-aarch64.git;a=commitdiff;h=a8858750f5b88bdc97ba9f59b1740c803796afd6
http://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=openembedded/meta-aarch64.git;a=commitdiff;h=ceeaf2ebea9e5c8ac9e1aad374106d339ebaac9f

Switch to ARM LT maintained boot wrapper is missing.

[Fathi Boudra (fboudra)]

Patch for the boot wrapper applied:
http://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=openembedded/meta-aarch64.git;a=commitdiff;h=957cb0008bcc7c1d0bddaff67344a609b2cac850