[poky] poky custom kernel misconfiguration

[Gerard van den Bosch]

On 02/22/2011 12:49 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
Thanks, it is selecting the right kernel now.

Regards,
Gerard