[poky] poky custom kernel misconfiguration

[Gerard van den Bosch]

On 02/22/2011 12:08 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 12:03 +0100, Gerard van den Bosch wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am trying to build Poky for my hardware platform with a custom kernel.
>> But when I build Poky it crashes by not finding a defconfig for kernel
>> 2.6.33.2-r2 which isn't the kernel I preferred to build.
>>
>> This is what I have done:
>>
>> Copied local.conf.sample to local.conf and changed the following:
>> BB_NUMBER_THREADS = "2"
>> PARALLEL_MAKE = "-j 2"
>> MACHINE ?= "tao3530"
>>
>> Because this is a new machine I have generated a tao3530.conf by copying
>> the beagleboard.conf because this is a similar device.
>> I have changed the kernel recipe to:
>> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel = "TAO-PSP"
>>
>> The kernel I used is normally used in Ångström for this board, but
>> because Ångström is also OpenEmbedded based I assumed I could use the
>> kernel in Poky also.
>>
>> In the meta/package/linux directory I made the TAO-PSP-2.6.32 directory.
>> In this directory I placed the tar.bz2 of my kernel and the defconfig
>> for my hardware platform.
>>
>> I have generated a bb file containing the following:
>>
>> SECTION = "kernel"
>> DESCRIPTION = "TAO3530 Linux kernel"
>> LICENSE = "GPL"
>>
>> KERNEL_OUTPUT = "arch/${ARCH}/boot/${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE}"
>>
>> inherit kernel
>>
>> COMPATIBLE_MACHINE = "tao3530"
>>
>> PR = "r1"
>>
>> SRC_URI = "file://TAO-PSP-03000106.tar.bz2 \
>>                           file://defconfig"
>>
>> S = "${WORKDIR}/linux-2.6.32"
>>
>> Can someone point me out what I did wrong or what I have forgot to
>> configure or where to look to find out what I did wrong.
> What did you call the .bb file?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
Sorry for the reply mistake, I am new to mailinglists.

The name of the bb file is: TAO-PSP-2.6.32.bb

Regards,
Gerard