Am 29.08.2014 18:01, schrieb Robert P. J. Day: > On Fri, 29 Aug 2014, Rudolf Streif wrote: > >> I think this is a great idea and I volunteer to help with the effort. >> >> that is kinda what i was after. i realize it's an open-ended >> request, but it would be great if there was a list of "recommended" >> dev kits representing various architectures/processors that people new >> to YP could purchase for experimentation, *knowing* that those dev >> kits had a YP build that would work out of the box. not necessarily >> technically complete, but that it would just boot and let them start >> playing. >> >> The "work out of the box" part is the tricky one. Unfortunately, >> many YP BSP layers do not include instructions on what to do after >> the build has completed. If you don't know what to do with boot >> loader and kernel images, flattened device tree files, root file >> system archives and images then you are at a loss. Commonly the >> boards also require a special boot media partitioning and the like. > > exactly true, but without that final bit of information, i contend > that the YP build is utterly useless unless the developer is told what > to do with the final image objects. > >> While this type of info should be in the BSP readme files I think it >> would be good to have step by step instructions that gets one from >> setting up the build environment to building and creating bootable >> media for each board. > > and those step-by-step instructions don't need to be terribly > verbose. remember, you're not trying to explain how to use YP; you're > simply summarizing what it takes to get it running on a particular dev > kit. all of that should fit on a single page at most. >
Robert Nelson has a good collection for ARM-Devkits in his eewiki: https://eewiki.net/display/linuxonarm/Home Maybe that could be a good starting point. > rday > > > -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
