[linux-yocto] Linux-yocto-custom and meta-data

[Bruce Ashfield]

On 12-10-15 8:00 PM, Darren Hart wrote:
>
>
> On 10/15/2012 04:56 PM, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>> On 12-10-15 7:47 PM, Darren Hart wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10/15/2012 04:42 PM, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>>>> On 12-10-15 7:26 PM, Darren Hart wrote:
>>>>> I've got a customer that insists on using their own kernel version, but
>>>>> doesn't want to keep their config in recipe-space. I already have them
>>>>> using linux-yocto-custom with a linux 3.5 based git repository. Seems to
>>>>> me the best way to address this would be for them to create a meta
>>>>> directory in their master branch which contains their BSP definition. Is
>>>>> it as simple as the following?
>>>>>
>>>>>      $ tree meta
>>>>>
>>>>>      meta/cfg/kernel-cache/bsp/common-pc
>>>>>      └── cfg
>>>>>          └── kernel-cache
>>>>>              └── bsp
>>>>>                  └── mybsp
>>>>>                      ├── mybsp.cfg
>>>>>                      └── mybsp.scc
>>>>>
>>>>> Where mybsp.scc is:
>>>>>
>>>>>      define KMACHINE mybsp
>>>>>      define KARCH i386
>>>>>      kconf hardware mybsp.cfg
>>>>>
>>>>> This doesn't define any kernel types, would we need to do that, or can
>>>>> the tools deal with that?
>>>>
>>>> The tools want to search by kmachine + ktype. In theory they can just
>>>> search on one and get the best match, so taking the default ktype of
>>>> standard *should* work (and not specifying it in the .scc, but it
>>>> should still be passed to the tools).
>>>
>>>
>>> So if I specify KTYPE=standard and MACHINE=mybsp, then I should be able
>>> to get away with:
>>>
>>>
>>>      meta
>>>      └── cfg
>>>          └── kernel-cache
>>>              └── bsp
>>>                  └── mybsp
>>>                      ├── mybsp.cfg
>>>                      └── mybsp-standard.scc
>>>
>>> Note the mybsp-standard.scc name, and the lack of a
>>> ktype/standard/standard.scc.
>>
>> Yep. Both are ok, and you don't even need to call it -standard.scc,
>> since the file name isn't searched, only the contents for the right
>> ktype/kmachine that best matches the machine+ktype passed down from
>> the build system.
>
> Ah, so mybsp.scc should contain:
>
>    define KMACHINE mybsp
>    define KARCH i386
>    define KTYPE standard
>    kconf hardware mybsp.cfg

I tested this, and as we thought, it does want the KTYPE to be defined.
I already have a patch to remove that requirement, and I'll queue it for
1.4.

One word of warning though. Due to the way that the branches are reset
and the way that git handles the base/origin commit, make sure you
have one commit BEFORE you add your BSP content onto the meta branch.

You'll also need to set KMETA=meta in your linux-yocto-custom to trigger
the checkout of the meta data.

If you have any trouble with the meta branch creation, shout, since it
definitely shouldn't contain the content from the master branch, or it'll
be reset just like any BSP branch!

Bruce

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> I'm going to try to test this tonight, but I may not be able to get to it.
>