On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 01:22 PM, Andrey Zhizhikin wrote:

> 
> Hello Brian,
> 
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 9:51 PM Brian Hutchinson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
>> ... what "distro" 'should' I be using since I have a custom board that's
>> based on imx8mm evk but I don't necessarily want/need wifi, bluetooth,
>> video, touchscreen etc.???
> 
> I suggest you go with your own distro then, as you can leverage the
> DISTRO_FEATURES in it yourself. You can either take any of 'fsl-'
> prefixed distros over 'poky' if you need some NXP proprietary
> components (e.g. VPU, GPU, etc), or take any of 'fslc-' prefixed ones
> if you want to stay with mainline. Please note - I do not say that
> 'poky' would not work here! :) It is just a reference distro from
> Yocto Project, which targets qemu on the first place, but also works
> well for real HW.
> 
> This is the way we build our distro (derived from 'fsl-wayland'), and
> so far it has proven to be working quite well. I also do sanity build
> and run the 'fsl-wayland' off the master on imx8mmevk to make sure
> there are no regressions.

When I did NXP released builds I would use fsl-wayland distro but if memory 
serves me right a core-image-minimal would not boot.  Only core-image-base 
images did and they were quite large.

I do need to create my own distro but kind of would like to start from 
core-image-minimal and build up rather than take something like fsl-wayland and 
try to figure out what I don't need.  Being new to NXP family this approach 
"feels" more logical.

> 
> 
>> Is poky what's causing my pain?
> 
> You can see what distro features you have included when you do
> 'bitbake -e' and search for DISTRO_FEATURES. If you have (and
> according to what you say - you do :) ) some pieces you do not need -
> you can always either not include them in your custom distro, or use
> DISTRO_FEATURES_remove = "<unneeded list>".
> 
> 
>> I've been doing TI based builds forever and recently switched over to NXP
>> based products so still learning the lay of the land. I finally discovered
>> I don't think I want to be building based off NXP releases from codeaurora
>> and that Freescale is the better base for our products but not 100% clear
>> what distro's are available and which ones I should focus on.
> 
> Those distros are located in a meta-freescale-distro layer, you can
> peek there to see what's available.

I'll look.   Thanks

Regards,

Brian
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