[PATCH openbmc] Force OLDEST_KERNEL to 4.4.0

[Joel Stanley]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 8:10 AM, OpenBMC Patches
<openbmc-patches at stwcx.xyz> wrote:
> From: Patrick Williams <patrick at stwcx.xyz>
>
> This is the oldest kernel currently used by openbmc, so there is no
> point in compiling glibc support older kernels.

Sounds good. Buildroot does the same thing for our firmware builds on the host.

Is there any way to use the actual kernel version to set this variable?

>
> Signed-off-by: Patrick Williams <patrick at stwcx.xyz>
> ---
>  meta-phosphor/conf/distro/openbmc-phosphor.conf | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/meta-phosphor/conf/distro/openbmc-phosphor.conf b/meta-phosphor/conf/distro/openbmc-phosphor.conf
> index f37e88c..b4e6f7a 100644
> --- a/meta-phosphor/conf/distro/openbmc-phosphor.conf
> +++ b/meta-phosphor/conf/distro/openbmc-phosphor.conf
> @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ DISTRO_NAME = "Phosphor OpenBMC (Phosphor OpenBMC Project Reference Distro)"
>  DISTRO_VERSION = "0.1.0"
>  TARGET_VENDOR="-openbmc"
>
> +OLDEST_KERNEL = "4.4.0"
>  GCCVERSION ?= "4.9.3"
>  IMAGE_FSTYPES += "cpio.gz"
>  IMAGE_FSTYPES += "squashfs-xz"
> --
> 2.9.0
>
>
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