2012/5/8 Bruce Ashfield <[email protected]>: > On 12-05-08 03:18 AM, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote: >> >> 2012/5/7 Bruce Ashfield<[email protected]>: >>> >>> On 12-05-07 03:29 PM, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> 2012/5/7 Bruce Ashfield<[email protected]>: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 12-05-07 10:41 AM, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi all, >>>>>> >>>>>> Not sure what the best place is to mail this (the YP list or oe-core >>>>>> or oe-devel or ...) >>>>>> Apologies if this is the wrong place. >>>>>> >>>>>> The problem I'm facing is the following: >>>>>> I have a kernel with some additional drivers that are not upstreamed >>>>>> because they are very specifc. >>>>>> I'm moving from oe-classic to denzil and from 2.6.38 to 3.2. >>>>>> Now some of the patches do not apply any more. >>>>>> In oe-classic I would have gone to the ker> > Cheers > > Belen > > > On 08/05/2012 13:23, "Frans Meulenbroeks" <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>2012/5/8 Barros Pena, Belen <[email protected]>: >>> Hi Frans, >>> >>> Thank you so much for agreeing to talk to us. Outside working hours >>>should >>> be no problem. What time would be good for you? >>> >>> >>> If you are ok with it, I'd like to record our conversation: it means I >>> don't need to take lots of notes and I can focus on talking to you. >>>Using >>> Skype makes the recording easier: would you mind if we use that instead >>>of >>> the phone? My Skype ID is belenbarrospena. >>> >>> All the best, >>> >>> Belen >>> >>> >>Hi Belen, >> >>Recording is no problem. Tonight I'm a little bit low on time, but I >>think tomorrow evening I'm fairly flexible (this may still change >>though, my life is sometimes somewhat hectic). >>20.30 or so will probably work for me, but if you prefer earlier or >>later that is also probably no problem. >>And recording is also no problem. >> >>Best regards, Frans > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Intel Corporation (UK) Limited > Registered No. 1134945 (England) > Registered Office: Pipers Way, Swindon SN3 1RJ > VAT No: 860 2173 47 > > This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential material for > the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review or distribution > by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended > recipient, please contact the sender and delete all copies. >
nel work dir, fix the issue, >>>>>> do a quilt refresh and copy the patch back (there is a patch that >>>>>> contains our driver) >>>>>> However, denzil uses guilt instead of quilt >>>>>> >>>>>> If I do a devshell of virtual/kernel and want to do with guilt what I >>>>>> used to do with quilt I run into a problem. >>>>>> guilt status says: Patches directory does not exist, try guilt-init >>>>>> and indeed there is no patches dir like there was in oe-classic >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Do you have guilt installed locally ? You are likely using the >>>>> native guilt. To keep patch lists separate on a per-branch basis >>>>> and to be able to capture them on th meta-branch, there are some >>>>> patches to guilt that move the patch directory location. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Guilt natively complained about a mismatch with the git version (my >>>> work system is still ubuntu 10.04). >>>> If I do a bitbake -c devshell virtual/kernel and use guilt there, I >>>> get the error on the patches directory that I mentioned above. >>>> It was my idea that I then would get the oe version in my path but I >>>> did not really verify that. Then again under devshell I did not get >>>> complaints about the git version. Will verify this tomorrow (I have no >>>> access to the build system from here). >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> > Cheers > > Belen > > > On 08/05/2012 13:23, "Frans Meulenbroeks" <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>2012/5/8 Barros Pena, Belen <[email protected]>: >>> Hi Frans, >>> >>> Thank you so much for agreeing to talk to us. Outside working hours >>>should >>> be no problem. What time would be good for you? >>> >>> >>> If you are ok with it, I'd like to record our conversation: it means I >>> don't need to take lots of notes and I can focus on talking to you. >>>Using >>> Skype makes the recording easier: would you mind if we use that instead >>>of >>> the phone? My Skype ID is belenbarrospena. >>> >>> All the best, >>> >>> Belen >>> >>> >>Hi Belen, >> >>Recording is no problem. Tonight I'm a little bit low on time, but I >>think tomorrow evening I'm fairly flexible (this may still change >>though, my life is sometimes somewhat hectic). >>20.30 or so will probably work for me, but if you prefer earlier or >>later that is also probably no problem. >>And recording is also no problem. >> >>Best regards, Frans > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Intel Corporation (UK) Limited > Registered No. 1134945 (England) > Registered Office: Pipers Way, Swindon SN3 1RJ > VAT No: 860 2173 47 > > This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential material for > the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review or distribution > by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended > recipient, please contact the sender and delete all copies. > >>>>> Are you working on top of linux-yocto-3.2 ? Or some other 3.2 tree ? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> I downloaded the denzil tarball from yoctoproject.com. I made some >>>> config changed and added a few local patches (bringing things over >>>> from my 2.6.38 oe-classic kernel). >>>> >>>> Should I have gotten a patches dir in my tmp/work/mymachine/linux* dir >>>> (I have my own machine mpc8313e based) >>> >>> >>> >>> The patches are pulled underneath the kernel tree itself, so that >>> they can be incorporated with other git manipulations of the tree >>> and shared as appropriate. >>> >>> So the patches directory exists in ${S}/meta/patches/$branch_name >>> >> Ok found that dir. However.... >> It is still not clear to me how to use this though. >> >> What I did was start a devshell for virtual/kernel. >> Within the devshell guilt is in the path, but still it does not work >> (I also tried invoking guilt with the full path). >> From my devshell window: >> >> >> frans@frans-desktop:~/poky-denzil-7.0-build/tmp/work/syrcxx-poky-linux-uclibc/linux-yocto-3.2.11+git1+b14a08f5c7b469a5077c10942f4e1aec171faa9d_1+01e948c2bdf7f5ad9f2b30047a8d3493a1a2880a-r1.23/linux$ >> which guilt >> /home/frans/poky-denzil-7.0-build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/bin/guilt >> >> frans@frans-desktop:~/poky-denzil-7.0-build/tmp/work/syrcxx-poky-linux-uclibc/linux-yocto-3.2.11+git1+b14a08f5c7b469a5077c10942f4e1aec171faa9d_1+01e948c2bdf7f5ad9f2b30047a8d3493a1a2880a-r1.23/linux$ >> /home/frans/poky-denzil-7.0-build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/bin/guilt >> status >> Patches directory doesn't exist, try guilt-init >> >> This is with the standard denzil 7.0 release. >> >> I've also been to the meta/patches dir and tried guilt status in there >> but to no avail. >> (or should I have manually made a symlink or so > > > There's nothing extra that should have to be done, I use guilt during patch > carry forward and tree generation, it's simply a matter of a few > environment variables. > > That being said, I've largely replaced guilt with mbox manipulations, > so I'm a bit concerned about bit rot. > > Is there any way you can get me access to your layer and patches ? > A simple test run is probably the easiest way for me to see what's > happened. > > >> >> Not sure what I am doing wrong. >> Is there a small example or some doc on how to do this? or can someone >> give a few commands that would show how to modify an existing patch >> (or create a new one) with patch? > > > There are docs, but if guilt next, or guilt push -f aren't working, they > won't be of much use. > > >> (btw noticed that the patches are also in >> .git/refs/patches/... >> however the guilt doc says: >> In Guilt, all the patches are stored in .git/patches/$branch/, where >> $branch ... > > > That's an unmodified guilt, you can't commit and track the series if you > let guilt store information under .git, so I created a variable and > relocated it. > > >> >> Also tried to add a symlink from .git/patches to .git/refs/patches but >> that did not help either. >> >> Thanks for any suggestion! > > > I can easily give you the raw git commands to make this work, but the guilt > path is supposed to be the gentle entry to the process. We need to > diagnose what is happening .. and I need to see it happen in front of > me, so I can try a few things. > > Cheers, > > Bruce > Bruce, Thanks for your help. I'l try to make a small overlay based upon the standard denzil 7.0 layer and send you the diffs. This will take a little bit of time as I want to verify here first that this still has the problem. Best regards, Frans _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
