[poky] Booting BeagleBoard

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2011/2/14 Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>:
> 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

My sincere apologies.
I'll try to do better next time.

Best regards, Frans