[meta-freescale] Updating fsl-community-bsp

[Otavio Salvador]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:52 PM, John Weber <rjohnweber at gmail.com> wrote:
> Here's an update.  Sorry I didn't elaborate fully on the last email.
>
> What I was trying to do is start working with the FSL 1.1.0 SDK kernel, the
> recipe of which doens't exist in meta-fsl-arm/danny.  Probably because danny
> is a ~stable~ branch.  It lives in master.  I spent some time figuring out
> that danny didn't have the kernel and master did.

Yes; you're right here.

> So, how to go about getting master instead of danny?  Well, I tried git
> checkout master in sources/meta-fsl-arm - no luck there.  I hadn't made any
> uncommited mods before.  The reason 'seems' to be that there is no branch
> information in that git repository.  That doesn't really make sense to me,
> but I didn't spend the time to figure it out either.

repo init -b master should work.

> Then, I figured I would hack the .repo/manifests.xml file and use
> revision="master" for meta-fsl-arm.  That didn't work either because I then
> spent a lot of time chasing oe layer dependencies.  The build would fail
> complaining that it couldn't find recipes for such and such .bbappend files.
>
> So, I was getting a ~little~ frustrated until I discovered that Otavio and
> the smart people on this list would probably have a repo default.xml for
> master the same as they have for danny because there has to be a better of
> doing this than I was going about doing it.  That master default.xml that
> you get in fsl-community-bsp-platform checks out the right versions of the
> repositories (all are master, when I was making the mistake of trying to use
> a danny/master mix).

Yey! :-)

> Once I had that information, all I did was repo init -u <url to
> fsl-community-bsp-platform> -b master.
>
> So, I'm good now.  Thanks for the comments.

Nice! So the larning process is going fine :-) Please ask if you have any doubt.

Regards,

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Otavio Salvador                             O.S. Systems
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