[Arm-dev] Next set of APM X-Gene patches

Wed Dec 2 20:55:11 UTC 2015
Jim Perrin <jperrin at centos.org>

I've just pushed pushed the update to the sig-altarch7-aarch64 branch.
You can find the new 4.2 based kernel at
https://git.centos.org/summary/sig-altarch!kernel.git

If you could supply any needed patches for that kernel I'll run through
the build.



On 12/02/2015 08:00 AM, Phong Vo wrote:
> Hi Jim,
> 
> We need to enable newly added configuration, and the only way I could
> think of is to do it as part of kernel-aarch64.spec utilizing the
> existing configuration merge mechanism, and without impacting the
> config-xxx files received from Redhat.
> 
> Yes, 4.2 patches are ready. I'll submit as soon as you are ready.
> However, we still need to resolve the config issue then.
> 
> -Phong
> 
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 8:30 PM, Jim Perrin <jperrin at centos.org> wrote:
>> I've been reasonably head-down on getting the new sources built.
>>
>> I guess my concern here is the need to merge your config changes in each
>> iteration. Is there a particular reason for doing it that way? Are you
>> trying to ensure ordering here?
>>
>> Also, we'll have the updated builds ready to go in the next few days. I
>> can run with this for the 3.19 update for now, however we'd need the 4.2
>> patches reasonably soon. Would that be a problem?
>>
>> On 12/02/2015 03:44 AM, Phong Vo wrote:
>>> Hi Jim,
>>>
>>> Do you have any feedback?
>>>
>>> -Phong
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 6:04 PM, Phong Vo <pvo at apm.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi Jim,
>>>>
>>>> I am resending the config patch. The change is to use merge.pl to
>>>> merge config-centos-sig into the final config in SPECS/kernel-aarch64
>>>> instead of modifying Makefile.config.
>>>>
>>>> The patch is against branch 3.19 of git://git.centos.org/sig-altarch/kernel.git
>>>>
>>>> Let me know what you think.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> -Phong
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 11:09 PM, Jim Perrin <jperrin at centos.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 11/23/2015 09:42 AM, Phong Vo wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Jim,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The config patch works fine for me.  It would be creating a
>>>>>> SOURCES/config-centos-sig and also modifying SOURCES/Makefile.config.
>>>>>> Actually, the patch is against the 3.19 version of c7-aarch64, not the
>>>>>> sig-altarch/kernel 3.19 branch version; but I believe both should be
>>>>>> the same.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Right. It's this modification of the Makefile.config I'm trying to
>>>>> avoid. The way the configs are combined in the spec file mean that we
>>>>> don't need to modify it. It's a semantic difference in how the packaging
>>>>> is done, where I'm trying to reduce or eliminate the need to
>>>>> modify/touch files provided by rh or in the kernel tarball.
>>>>>
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