On 9/13/2012 12:07 PM, andy pugh wrote: > On 13 September 2012 18:03, Kenneth Lerman <[email protected]> wrote: >> I've just started looking at the yocto project > I know the main architect of that, he's in my bike club. >
Andy: I finally got around to test-driving Yocto. It was so easy to set up Yocto and then do a new kernel build that I kept thinking I must have done something wrong. Nope, Yocto just removes all the niffnaff I encountered dealing directly with OpenEmbedded and BitBake. Understanding how to customize configurations for systems not already defined will be a challenge (e.g., RTFM) but that was true before and the customizations look to be easier (for me at least) to contain and maintain in Yocto. Running on an AMD Athlon II X4-640 CPU reduced the elapsed wall-clock time to just over an hour to complete my first kernel build. This included Yocto downloading, building, and configuring all necessary software from various sources before it started the kernel build itself. This is to be compared to my all-night builds with OE/BB on a single-core CPU last year. I can't credit Yocto with the multi-core speed up, of course, but Yocto's ease of use is a huge winner in my book. I give Yocto five stars. Please tell your friend it's my shout should we ever meet in a pub. Regards, Kent PS - Ken - if you haven't actually tried it yet, be sure to read the statements about disk-space consumption---they recommend starting with at least 50GB free space. I was lazy the first time around and started on a system which had only about 12GB free. Linux died when it ran out of space. No problem once I moved stuff around so I had more than 100GB free space :-) I have no idea what the high-water mark was during the build. I don't recall how much space I had available when I was running naked OE/BB last year; who cares, I'm not going back ;-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How fast is your code? 3 out of 4 devs don\\\'t know how their code performs in production. Find out how slow your code is with AppDynamics Lite. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;262219672;13503038;z? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
