On 05/29/2014 11:53 AM, Bob Cochran wrote:
On 05/29/2014 10:21 AM, tom campbell wrote:
I'm upgrading from Freescale's Yocto Beta release to Freescale's GA
release.
In the "Freescale Yocto Project User's Guide" Doc# IMXLXYOCTOUG, Rev
L3.10.17_1.0.0ga, 05/2014
In section 5.4 U-Boot Configuration, page 7 it refers to:
Freescale U-Boot User's Guide
I can't seem to find that document. Can anyone point me to it?
Hi Tom,
Where are these docs you are referring to? Are they on the Freescale
Community site?
It's not clear to me whether you are an i.MX/ARM developer or QorIQ
(ARM or powerpc)
For me, I can find Freescale u-boot documentation in my "Freescale
Linux SDK for QorIQ Processors" documentation folder. This is part of
the SDK tar ball. I think this same information is available on
freescale.com at their infocenter, but it seems to be down at the
moment (at least for me).
It's never been clear to me where developers using Freescale devices
are supposed to look for the latest stable yocto/linux documentation &
patches: SDK, Yoctoproject.org, freescale.com, git.freescale.com or
community.freescale.com.
I would appreciate someone letting me know if this has been clarified
recently.
Thanks,
Bob
Bob/List/Lauren:
I'm an i.MX/ARM developer.
Thank all for response.
I would echo Bob's sentiments that the Freescale QA release badly needs
a "home landing page" with links to follow for documentation and the
like. The Freescale documentation is IMHO quite good (thank you).
Finding it is a another matter. I'm new to Yocto (which I like), but
the layered architecture makes finding who is responsible for what and
locating the appropriate documentation more than daunting to a newbie
Yocto user..... and this is coming from a grizzled embedded linux
veteran on his Nth build system. I can only image the glazed eyes of a
rookie C programmer coming from a single proprietary os.
The closest thing I found to a "home page" is
http://freescale.github.io/#header-section whose documentation link goes
to http://freescale.github.io/doc/release-notes/1.6/. I downloaded the
tarball of fsl-yocto-3.10.17_1.0.0.tar.gz from somewhere from
Freescale.com (I think). I would think it ought to be pointed to from
the "home page" somehow. Maybe it is, and I can't find it.
I understand that there are plethora of Freescale products and I only
care about one, but I suspect other product lines suffer from the same
issues. To be fair, I haven't looked into the build directories created
by yocto/bitbake. It may be that some of this documentation is there.
(I'm focusing on getting the GA release to run on a custom board at the
moment).
Next on my list is to build the toolkit for u-boot development outside
of yocto and the sdk for eclipse development. General question. If I
understand the process, building the toolkit (sorry I forget the exact
target name) installs all the appropriate cross-compilers/linkers needed
for the i.Mx. Normally a clean yocto build via bitbake also completely
builds the cross-chain compilers/linkers. Are the yocto recipes smart
enough to use any existing cross compliers? Do I have to edit a recipe
file? Is it a bad idea? Basically looking to reduce the build time.
From memory, the github.io points you to installing sphinx and
self-generate documentation locally from git:github.io. Is it's content
currently available on the web?
I would also echo Bob's request for a freescale bugzilla or equivalent.
thx
tom campbell
www.DinkumSoftware.com
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