[poky] Booting BeagleBoard

[Richard Purdie]

On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 19:14 +0100, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
> 2011/2/13 Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com>:
> > On 02/13/2011 08:21 AM, Koen Kooi wrote:
> >>
> >> Op 13 feb 2011, om 16:06 heeft Gary Thomas het volgende geschreven:
> >>
> >>> On 02/13/2011 08:00 AM, Koen Kooi wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Op 13 feb 2011, om 15:57 heeft Gary Thomas het volgende geschreven:
> >>>>
> >>>>> On 02/12/2011 08:01 AM, Koen Kooi wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Op 12 feb 2011, om 15:52 heeft Gary Thomas het volgende geschreven:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I have a BeagleBoard C3 (not the new xM).  Trying to run the
> >>>>>>> latest Poky ran into some problems:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> * The boot commands in README.hardware are no longer accurate
> >>>>>>>  for the 2.6.37 (linux-yocto) kernel.  At least you need to
> >>>>>>>  use ttyO2 for the serial console.
> >>>>>>> * There is no video?  /dev/fb0 is not being created.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I know that the previous (Angstrom based) 2.6.32 kernel had
> >>>>>>> lots of additions which support video (DSS subsystem) and
> >>>>>>> also camera (ISP).  Has this support been ported forward
> >>>>>>> into the Yocto kernel?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Even better, there is a proper BSP with beagleboard support:
> >>>>>> http://gitorious.org/angstrom/angstrom-layers/commits/master
> >>>>>
> >>>>> How is this used?  I tried just adding a pointer to that tree
> >>>>> in my conf/bblayers.conf.  I also tried moving that tree into
> >>>>> my poky sources at the same level as meta-emenlow, etc.  Both
> >>>>> attempts immediately yielded this error:
> >>>>>  ERROR: Unable to parse conf/bitbake.conf: Could not include required
> >>>>> file conf/machine/include/omap3.inc
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Perhaps you can give some guidance for how to use this?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.angstrom.devel/4698/focus=4700
> >>>
> >>> Obviously this is not what I'm looking for.
> >>>
> >>> What I had wanted to test was your layering on top of my extant
> >>> Poky/Yocto environment.  I don't want to start over as I have my
> >>> own layers that work just fine with Poky.
> >>
> >> I obviously misunderstood your request on the angstrom mailinglist on how
> >> to setup angstrom on top of yocto as a request on how to setup angstrom on
> >> top of yocto. I'm sorry that I fail to understand such obvious things. I
> >> will from now on stop trying to understand your requests to avoid any
> >> confusion and perceived wrongdoing on my part.
> >
> > That would be reasonable except that this entire thread was on
> > the Poky mailing list :-)  If you look closely, I asked about
> > running the BeagleBoard on the latest Poky/Yocto and you replied
> > with this info about your angstrom layers.
> 
> Gary, you're better off ignoring Koen.
> Apparently he hasn't taken his medicine this morning.
> And, frankly speaking, the reply above is among hismore friendly ones.
> His mission in life seems to be to drive everyone away from OE (unless
> of course you're one of his fan-boys). Guess he tries to pull the same
> trick with poky/yocto.
> Sometimes I really pity Richard, having to deal with someone like Koen..

Until now we've managed to keep the Poky/Yocto lists clear of this kind
of discussion. I'd like to point out:

https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Community_Guidelines

and

http://www.yoctoproject.org/tos

Specifically, its usually better to keep discussions to technical
grounds and not make them personal.

Cheers,

Richard