[poky] poky custom kernel misconfiguration

[Richard Purdie]

On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 12:21 +0100, Gerard van den Bosch wrote:
> 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

Try calling it TAO-PSP_2.6.32.bb as "_" is the separator between the
name and the version.

Cheers,

Richard