[meta-freescale] Freescale U-Boot User's Guide
tom campbell
content at DinkumSoftware.com
Fri May 30 07:36:49 PDT 2014
On 05/29/2014 11:53 AM, Bob Cochran wrote:
> On 05/29/2014 10:21 AM, tom campbell wrote:
>> I'm upgrading from Freescale's Yocto Beta release to Freescale's GA
>> release.
>>
>> In the "Freescale Yocto Project User's Guide" Doc# IMXLXYOCTOUG, Rev
>> L3.10.17_1.0.0ga, 05/2014
>> In section 5.4 U-Boot Configuration, page 7 it refers to:
>>
>> Freescale U-Boot User's Guide
>>
>> I can't seem to find that document. Can anyone point me to it?
>
> Hi Tom,
>
> Where are these docs you are referring to? Are they on the Freescale
> Community site?
>
> It's not clear to me whether you are an i.MX/ARM developer or QorIQ
> (ARM or powerpc)
>
> For me, I can find Freescale u-boot documentation in my "Freescale
> Linux SDK for QorIQ Processors" documentation folder. This is part of
> the SDK tar ball. I think this same information is available on
> freescale.com at their infocenter, but it seems to be down at the
> moment (at least for me).
>
> It's never been clear to me where developers using Freescale devices
> are supposed to look for the latest stable yocto/linux documentation &
> patches: SDK, Yoctoproject.org, freescale.com, git.freescale.com or
> community.freescale.com.
>
> I would appreciate someone letting me know if this has been clarified
> recently.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bob
>
Bob/List/Lauren:
I'm an i.MX/ARM developer.
Thank all for response.
I would echo Bob's sentiments that the Freescale QA release badly needs
a "home landing page" with links to follow for documentation and the
like. The Freescale documentation is IMHO quite good (thank you).
Finding it is a another matter. I'm new to Yocto (which I like), but
the layered architecture makes finding who is responsible for what and
locating the appropriate documentation more than daunting to a newbie
Yocto user..... and this is coming from a grizzled embedded linux
veteran on his Nth build system. I can only image the glazed eyes of a
rookie C programmer coming from a single proprietary os.
The closest thing I found to a "home page" is
http://freescale.github.io/#header-section whose documentation link goes
to http://freescale.github.io/doc/release-notes/1.6/. I downloaded the
tarball of fsl-yocto-3.10.17_1.0.0.tar.gz from somewhere from
Freescale.com (I think). I would think it ought to be pointed to from
the "home page" somehow. Maybe it is, and I can't find it.
I understand that there are plethora of Freescale products and I only
care about one, but I suspect other product lines suffer from the same
issues. To be fair, I haven't looked into the build directories created
by yocto/bitbake. It may be that some of this documentation is there.
(I'm focusing on getting the GA release to run on a custom board at the
moment).
Next on my list is to build the toolkit for u-boot development outside
of yocto and the sdk for eclipse development. General question. If I
understand the process, building the toolkit (sorry I forget the exact
target name) installs all the appropriate cross-compilers/linkers needed
for the i.Mx. Normally a clean yocto build via bitbake also completely
builds the cross-chain compilers/linkers. Are the yocto recipes smart
enough to use any existing cross compliers? Do I have to edit a recipe
file? Is it a bad idea? Basically looking to reduce the build time.
From memory, the github.io points you to installing sphinx and
self-generate documentation locally from git:github.io. Is it's content
currently available on the web?
I would also echo Bob's request for a freescale bugzilla or equivalent.
thx
tom campbell
www.DinkumSoftware.com
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