[yocto] Patch version gotchas (was Re: i think the list of required software needs to be clarified)

2013-04-09 Thread Tim Bird
that some of our patches were not compatible with this version of patch, and thus found ourselves in a pickle. We now have to switch between patch versions, depending on the project and set of patches we're working on. = Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Workgroup

[yocto] RFC - integrating target runtime information into a yocto build

2013-01-23 Thread Tim Bird
to know the dangers here. I would, however, very much like to make this work reproducible and automated, which is why I have a high interest in doing this in YP. Thanks, -- Tim = Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Workgroup of the Linux Foundation Senior Staff

[yocto] What is GMAE?

2012-12-14 Thread Tim Bird
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Re: [yocto] What is GMAE?

2012-12-14 Thread Tim Bird
On 12/14/2012 12:45 PM, Mark Hatle wrote: On 12/14/12 1:46 PM, Burton, Ross wrote: On 14 December 2012 19:43, Tim Bird tim.b...@am.sony.com wrote: If you need GMAE, you should use the bitbake meta-toolchain-gmae command. The resulting installation script when run will support such development

Re: [yocto] might it be worth explaining BBMASK more comprehensively?

2012-12-12 Thread Tim Bird
On 12/12/2012 11:53 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Wed, 12 Dec 2012, Tim Bird wrote: On 12/12/2012 11:27 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: a bit more pedantry, but is there a more complete example of the use of BBMASK than the trivial example in the ref and dev manuals? the ref manual

Re: [yocto] might it be worth explaining BBMASK more comprehensively?

2012-12-12 Thread Tim Bird
On 12/12/2012 11:53 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Wed, 12 Dec 2012, Tim Bird wrote: I don't know if the .= with leading bar is the optimal way to append on to BBMASK, but it seems fairly straightforward to me. I sometimes use the leading .* and sometimes not. it doesn't seem like

Re: [yocto] chris larson's cool bitbake-env utility

2012-12-03 Thread Tim Bird
On 11/30/2012 05:53 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Thu, 29 Nov 2012, Tim Bird wrote: I put a link to your page on my bitbake cheat sheet page at: http://elinux.org/Bitbake_Cheat_Sheet as someone who has never bothered to play with any of the UIs and is thus asking from a position

Re: [yocto] chris larson's cool bitbake-env utility

2012-11-29 Thread Tim Bird
useful in my courses. Yeah - this looks great. I put a link to your page on my bitbake cheat sheet page at: http://elinux.org/Bitbake_Cheat_Sheet = Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Workgroup of the Linux Foundation Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Network Entertainment

Re: [yocto] updated wiki page for using yocto to build for beagle xM (rev C)

2012-11-20 Thread Tim Bird
page on Yocto. -- Tim = Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Workgroup of the Linux Foundation Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Network Entertainment = ___ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https

Re: [yocto] Problem compiling diffutils on poky-tiny in danny

2012-11-14 Thread Tim Bird
On 11/14/2012 08:48 AM, Darren Hart wrote: On 11/13/2012 05:11 PM, Tim Bird wrote: Hi all, I'm using DISTRO=poky-tiny and trying to build: $ bitbake core-image-minimal-initramfs I get the following error trying to compile diffutils: ... i586-poky-linux-gcc -m32 -march=i586

Re: [yocto] Problem compiling diffutils on poky-tiny in danny

2012-11-14 Thread Tim Bird
On 11/14/2012 11:05 AM, Darren Hart wrote: On 11/14/2012 10:57 AM, Tim Bird wrote: On 11/14/2012 10:50 AM, Darren Hart wrote: runqemu doesn't quite know what to make of poky-tiny :-) Try the following: $ qemu-system-i386 -kernel path/to/kernel -initrd path/to/image.cpio.gz -nographic -append

Re: [yocto] Problem compiling diffutils on poky-tiny in danny

2012-11-14 Thread Tim Bird
On 11/14/2012 01:47 PM, Tim Bird wrote: On 11/14/2012 11:05 AM, Darren Hart wrote: On 11/14/2012 10:57 AM, Tim Bird wrote: On 11/14/2012 10:50 AM, Darren Hart wrote: runqemu doesn't quite know what to make of poky-tiny :-) Try the following: $ qemu-system-i386 -kernel path/to/kernel -initrd

[yocto] Problem compiling diffutils on poky-tiny in danny

2012-11-13 Thread Tim Bird
compile log for details. Has anyone done this recently? Is this one of the supported images for this distro (poky-tiny)? Has anyone seen this type of error before, or can provide some hints of what to check or adjust to fix this? Thanks, -- Tim = Tim Bird

[yocto] supported IMAGE_FSTYPES

2012-10-30 Thread Tim Bird
if these are newbie questions. Thanks, -- Tim = Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Workgroup of the Linux Foundation Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Network Entertainment = ___ yocto mailing list yocto

[yocto] supported IMAGE_FSTYPES

2012-10-30 Thread Tim Bird
. Thanks, -- Tim = Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Workgroup of the Linux Foundation Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Network Entertainment = ___ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https

Re: [yocto] The term Package as used in the YP docs

2012-09-28 Thread Tim Bird
privately by mistake - here's some feedback on-list) I'm in favor of mentioning the history somewhere, because the names do have a 'P' in them, and this is confusing otherwise. Overall, I think the new wording is worthwhile. -- Tim = Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair

Re: [yocto] of recipes and packages

2012-08-22 Thread Tim Bird
the following: $ bitbake -s | grep busybox busybox :1.19.4-r2 Note that this includes the version of busybox (the input source version), as well as (I think) the recipe revision number. And yes - a definitive glossary would be great. -- Tim = Tim

Re: [yocto] Manually fetching files (and disabling the sanity-checker)

2012-08-03 Thread Tim Bird
On 07/18/2012 05:22 PM, Saul Wold wrote: On 07/18/2012 04:50 PM, Tim Bird wrote: Hi all, I've given up trying to work around Sony's firewall. After repeated attempts I still can't get any 'git:'-based URLS to work through the firewall. I vaguely recall the last time I worked on this (about

Re: [yocto] Unable to get serial console login prompt - PowerPC 440 Virtex 5 processor

2012-08-03 Thread Tim Bird
that are being opened during the boot. ldlinux.so should be one of them. The linker should then be trying to load the other libraries needed by the program. This should also result in open calls (or possibly mmap calls). Good luck. -- Tim = Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair

[yocto] Manually fetching files (and disabling the sanity-checker)

2012-07-18 Thread Tim Bird
appliance image? Any advice or pointers would be appreciated. -- Tim = Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Workgroup of the Linux Foundation Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Network Entertainment

Re: [yocto] denzil firewall problems

2012-07-17 Thread Tim Bird
On 07/16/2012 08:56 PM, McClintock Matthew-B29882 wrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Tim Bird tim.b...@am.sony.com wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to take Denzil out for a spin, and when I do bitbake, from inside Sony (behind our corporate firewall) I get this: (I was doing 'bitbake poky

[yocto] denzil firewall problems

2012-07-16 Thread Tim Bird
/meta/conf/sanity.conf. I looked at it (and meta/classes/sanity.bbclass) but it's not obvious to me how I would disable it. = Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Workgroup of the Linux Foundation Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Network Entertainment

Re: [yocto] rantthe current yocto FAQ is pretty much valueless/rant

2012-06-26 Thread Tim Bird
to the project that certain features and terminology are second-nature to them, and go unspoken or unclarified in the entries. I'm not in this category, so if I find some time I'll try to make a few FAQ entries that address the points of confusion I've seen. -- Tim = Tim Bird

Re: [yocto] RFC: poky-tiny: init procedure

2012-06-15 Thread Tim Bird
to be dismissive or harsh, but I do think that if you want the features of some other init system, then the right answer is to use them, and not complain about this one. -- Tim = Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Workgroup of the Linux Foundation Senior Staff Engineer, Sony

Re: [yocto] RFC: poky-tiny: init procedure

2012-06-15 Thread Tim Bird
are obvious from the script. (This is rarely true of init scripts). If anyone has good ideas or other experience for the init sequence for highly customized, resource-constrained products, I'd like to hear about them. -- Tim = Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Workgroup

Re: [yocto] RFC: poky-tiny: init procedure

2012-06-13 Thread Tim Bird
On 6/13/2012 5:33 PM, Darren Hart wrote: For those of you using poky-tiny or are interested in building very very small systems, I would appreciate your thoughts here. Currently poky-tiny images will boot and run /bin/sh, which results in error messages to the console about being unable to open

Re: [yocto] RFC: User configurable recipe features

2011-10-12 Thread Tim Bird
On 10/12/2011 09:59 AM, Darren Hart wrote: On 10/11/2011 04:49 PM, Tim Bird wrote: On 10/10/2011 11:41 AM, Darren Hart wrote: As part of working on meta-tiny, I've come across a need (want?) to present users with the ability to select some set of features in a local configuration file

Re: [yocto] RFC: User configurable recipe features

2011-10-11 Thread Tim Bird
meta-tiny? this is the first I've heard about this (sorry if discussion went by on the mailing list and I missed it), and I'm very interested. I'm currently doing some size-related work for Sony (including some work to support 4K stacks). Thanks, -- Tim = Tim Bird

[yocto] Build failure on recent yocto download

2011-08-03 Thread Tim Bird
/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_git.bb' failed ERROR: '/a/home/tbird/work/yocto/poky-bernard-5.0/meta/recipes-graphics/cairo/cairo_1.10.2.bb' failed = Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Workgroup of the Linux Foundation Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Network

Re: [yocto] Build failure on recent yocto download

2011-08-03 Thread Tim Bird
On 08/03/2011 05:08 PM, Tim Bird wrote: Hi all, I'm not sure where to report this, but I tried again to build Yocto, without success. I downloaded poky-bernard-4.0.tar.bz2, and followed instructions for installing it. Silly me. poky-bernard-5.0.tar.bz2 -- Tim

Re: [yocto] Build failure on recent yocto download

2011-08-03 Thread Tim Bird
On 8/3/2011 5:50 PM, Joshua Lock wrote: On Wed, 2011-08-03 at 17:40 -0700, Joshua Lock wrote: On Wed, 2011-08-03 at 17:08 -0700, Tim Bird wrote: Hi all, I'm not sure where to report this, but I tried again to build Yocto, without success. I downloaded poky-bernard-4.0.tar.bz2, and followed

Re: [yocto] Build failure on recent yocto download

2011-08-03 Thread Tim Bird
On 8/3/2011 5:33 PM, Stewart, David C wrote: The current release is http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/downloads/poky/poky-bernard-5.0.1.tar.bz2 - so I would hope you might try 5.0.1 instead of 5.0. OK - I'll see if I have time to try again. I was following the instructions at:

[yocto] Build success (mostly), disk space a little huge

2010-12-16 Thread Tim Bird
-linux 4.6Gqemux86-poky-linux This seems a bit high? Is this normal? -- Tim = Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Network Entertainment = ___ yocto