Re: Building linux-yocto kernel in own bsp layer

From: martiert@gmail.com
To: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@windriver.com>
Cc: "yocto@yoctoproject.org" <yocto@yoctoproject.org>
Subject: Re: Building linux-yocto kernel in own bsp layer
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 08:30:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6E97B830-76B6-4D29-993B-D73A7732E044@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52071D37.9020009@windriver.com>

Cool. Thank you so much for the help. Looking forward to getting home tomorrow and testing it out. Can't help but love this community and the help one gets here.

- Martin

On 11. aug. 2013, at 07:12, Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@windriver.com> wrote:

> On 13-08-08 8:38 AM, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>> On 13-08-08 02:04 AM, Martin Ertsaas wrote:
>>> On 08/07/13 19:23, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>>>> On 13-08-07 12:31 PM, martiert@gmail.com wrote:
>>>>> Bruce, have you had the opportunity to look at this yet?
>>>> 
>>>> I was about to email on this. I was out of the office last week, but
>>>> was just starting on this last night.
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> 
>>>> Bruce
>>> Great. Thanks for the help btw. It is greatly appreciated. I'm kind of
>>> stuck on what I have done wrong on this one.
>> 
>> Understood. I'm bumping this up to my list and have started a test build.
> 
> I've sorted this out. You didn't do anything wrong, outside of not
> defining a BSP description for the board you are building.
> 
> I've had a patch queued for 1.5 that would have detected this mismatch
> and adapted, but that change is held up on the 3.10 kernel and some
> other changes .. but I digress.
> 
> This also should have been in the docs, since it is what the yocto-bsp
> tool generates for new BSPs. But it's probably not obvious enough, and
> with my pending patches, that should be ok .. but I digress again.
> 
> What basically happened is that the atom-pc BSP description was picked
> to match your pandaboard build. That's why you see the different architecture
> and what looks like an ignored defconfig. The tools will shortly
> generate you a skeleton config, but for now, you need to define your
> own that will be found and used.
> 
> I've attached a patch that does just that, and when I configured,
> everything was applied properly.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Bruce
> 
>> 
>> Bruce
>> 
>>> 
>>> - Martin
>> 
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