[yocto] couple questions about cleaning up the Quick Start Guide

2011-10-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
perusing the QS guide in prep for giving a yocto talk this week to my local LUG and some cosmetic changes i can submit a patch for: 1) www.yoctoproject.org/downloads clearly redirects to downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases these days. any objection to my just changing the former referenc

[yocto] any objection to adding a PREMIRRORS section to the QS guide?

2011-10-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
perhaps outside the scope of QS, but might it be worth adding a short section on appending something like this to one's local.conf file before starting the download? PREMIRRORS_prepend = "\ git://.*/.* file:///home/rpjday/dl/ \n \ svn://.*/.* file:///home/rpjday/dl/ \n \ cvs://.*/.* file:///hom

[yocto] what's the proper value for BB_NUMBER_THREADS?

2011-10-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
all the docs recommend twice the number of cores (AFAICT), yet the template local.conf file suggests that, for a quad core, the value of 4 would be appropriate. shouldn't that say 8? same with PARALLEL_MAKE? rday -- R

Re: [yocto] what's the proper value for BB_NUMBER_THREADS?

2011-10-30 Thread Christian Gagneraud
On 30/10/11 15:32, Robert P. J. Day wrote: all the docs recommend twice the number of cores (AFAICT), yet the template local.conf file suggests that, for a quad core, the value of 4 would be appropriate. shouldn't that say 8? same with PARALLEL_MAKE? Hi Robert, The Poky ref manual says (

Re: [yocto] what's the proper value for BB_NUMBER_THREADS?

2011-10-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 30 Oct 2011, Christian Gagneraud wrote: > On 30/10/11 15:32, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > >all the docs recommend twice the number of cores (AFAICT), yet the > > template local.conf file suggests that, for a quad core, the value of > > 4 would be appropriate. shouldn't that say 8? s

[yocto] a couple cleanups at the toolchains download location

2011-10-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
(yes, i *am* going to be this pedantic all day long. at least until football starts.) over at http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/yocto/yocto-1.1/toolchain/, a couple optional fixups: 1) the toolchain ...i686-x86_64... doesn't appear to belong under the x86-64 directory. (it *does* liv

Re: [yocto] Which filesystem for target?

2011-10-30 Thread Stewart, David C
Anybody got an answer for Chris? (A lot of folks are traveling back from a conference, Chris, so might explain slowness) Sent from my Blackberry - Original Message - From: Chris Tapp [mailto:opensou...@keylevel.com] Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 03:11 PM To: yocto@yoctoproject.org Su

[yocto] where does that "50G" disk space figure come from in QS guide?

2011-10-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
QS guide suggests build process using sato will use about 50G of disk space. where does that figure come from? i just did a configure and build of core-image-sato for beagleboard on my 64-bit ubuntu 11.10 system and it cost me about 3.5G for the tarball download directory, and just under 28G f

[yocto] [PATCH] Numerous typo/grammatical/URL fixes to Yocto Quick Start guide.

2011-10-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
A number of cosmetic fixes for the Yocto Quick Start Guide: * spelling/grammar fixes * Updating URLs to point at new location of downloads/toolchains. * Correct name of toolchains, prefix of "yocto" -> "poky" ... and more. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day --- Not quite done with the Q

Re: [yocto] where does that "50G" disk space figure come from in QS guide?

2011-10-30 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Robert, In message you wrote: > > QS guide suggests build process using sato will use about 50G of > disk space. where does that figure come from? i just did a configure > and build of core-image-sato for beagleboard on my 64-bit ubuntu 11.10 > system and it cost me about 3.5G for the

Re: [yocto] where does that "50G" disk space figure come from in QS guide?

2011-10-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 31 Oct 2011, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Robert, > > In message you > wrote: > > > > QS guide suggests build process using sato will use about 50G of > > disk space. where does that figure come from? i just did a configure > > and build of core-image-sato for beagleboard on my 64-bit

[yocto] Yocto weekly bug trend charts -- WW44

2011-10-30 Thread Xu, Jiajun
Hi all, The overall open bug trend increased last week. Open bug and WDD number increased to 156 and 781. Bug status of WW44 could be found on https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_Bug_Trend. Best Regards, Jiajun ___ yocto mailing list yocto

[yocto] [PATCH] Final cosmetic/grammar/URL patches for QS Guide

2011-10-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
One more set of patches for the QS Guide, covering the remainder of the Guide from the kernel section to the end; mostly updating filenames and URLs to reflect what actually exists these days. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day --- nothing earth-shaking here, just thought i'd finish off the Q