Hello, I'm trying to get openembedded to build my kernel instead of the default openmoko-kernel specified as the PREFERRED_PROVIDER in the openembedded/conf/machine/fic-gta01.conf file. To achieve this, I created an overlay tree called 'o11s' and made it the highest priority in the BBPATH as described here:
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Application_Development_Crash_Course Next I populated the conf directory of the overlay tree with a copy of machine/fic-gta01.conf and changed the PREFERRED_PROVIDER to linux-openmoko-o11s. The file linux-openmoko-o11s_git.bb lives in the pacages/linux/ directory of my overlay tree. When I run "bitbake virtual/kernel -D", I get the following: DEBUG: providers for virtual/kernel are: [<blah blah blah>, 'linux-openmoko-o11s', <blah blah blah>, 'linux-openmoko', <blah blah blah>, 'linux-openmoko-devel', <blah blah blah>] NOTE: Selecting already-staged linux-openmoko (0:2.6.24+svnr4102-r3) to satisfy virtual/kernel NOTE: selecting linux-openmoko-o11s to satisfy virtual/kernel due to PREFERRED_PROVIDERS DEBUG: sorted providers for virtual/kernel are: ['/path/to/o11s/packages/linux/linux-openmoko-o11s_git.bb', '/path/to/openembedded/packages/linux/linux-openmoko_2.6.24.bb', '/path/to/openembedded/packages/linux/poodle-kernel-2.4-embedix.bb', <etc....> ] As expected, my linux-openmoko-o11s kernel appears as a provider, and AND appears at the top of the sorted providers AND appears to be selected from the list due to my PREFERRED_PROVIDERS declaration. Confusingly, bitbake also reports that it is selecting linux-openmoko. The build does not create my preferred kernel and completes with: NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 513 tasks of which 513 didn't need to be rerun and 0 failed. NOTE: build 200803060906: completed revealing that in the end, linux-openmoko was preferred over linux-openmoko-o11s. Why? How can I override this? I'm about to dive into the bitbake source, but any help would be appreciated. Ciao, Brian
