Re: [poky] [PATCH 1/1] linux-yocto: Use in-tree config for genericarm64

On Mon, Jun 16, 2025 at 3:05 PM Ross Burton via lists.yoctoproject.org
<[email protected]> wrote:

> On 16 Jun 2025, at 19:46, Alexander Sowarka via lists.yoctoproject.org
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > The genericarm64 machine should run on most ARM SystemReady devices.
> > The arm64 configuration in the mainline kernel repository works stable
> > on a lot more devices then the poky internal one.
> > Switch to using the in-tree kernel config to run on more SystemReady
> > devices.
>
> This was almost by design: the initial target platform was the BeaglePlay,
> and then the Xilinx KV260.
>
> As the co-maintainer of this BSP I’d _much_ prefer to see the gaps fixed
> instead of upstream defconfig used blindly.  It’s an unusual upstream
> release where the defconfig doesn’t result in configuration warnings, and
> we have a general ethos that modular configurations are better than a
> single monolithic defconfig.
>

And as one of our reference platforms, that's a hard NO from me (the in
tree defconfig).

We do our references by the yocto policy, not the kitchen-sink in tree
defconfig.

If there's issues with the fragments, fix them. Not this. There's
absolutely nothing by
accident about the way we do it currently.

Bruce



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