[poky] Incorrect startup warning on ARM targets

[Gary Thomas]

On 05/03/2011 05:12 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
> On (03/05/11 16:07), Gary Thomas wrote:
>> When building for an ARM target, you may see this error:
>>    /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr is not<= 65536. This will cause problems with qemu so please fix the value (as root)
>>
>> This is a show-stopper; bitbake refuses to run until it's fixed.
>> However, I don't believe it is useful or required any longer.  From
>> my understanding, it was there in the past because QEMU for ARM didn't
>> work correctly unless this system parameter was set as indicated.  That
>> was when QEMU was being used during the build to create localization
>> data.  This is no longer being done and QEMU is not used during the
>> build process.
>>
>> Perhaps we could eliminate this warning or make it conditional
>> somehow?  As is, asking the user to make a system-wide setting
>> as root for something that's not necessary seems wrong.
>
> This warning is taken care of in qemu-native we build. But I think its
> already fixed in upstream oe-core

It's still in the Poky tree (sanity.bbclass) which is what I'm asking about.

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