[yocto] [beagleboard] Yocto

Xianghua Xiao xiaoxianghua at gmail.com
Fri Dec 3 11:34:58 PST 2010


On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Bruce Ashfield
<bruce.ashfield at windriver.com> wrote:
> On 10-12-03 02:11 PM, Xianghua Xiao wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Petr Štetiar<ynezz at true.cz>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Michael J. Hammel<mjhammel at graphics-muse.org>  [2010-12-03 11:01:27]:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>> I've heard of Yocto only in passing.  I'm assuming it's another
>>>> bitbake-based metabuild system?  Is there some reasoning why
>>>> Meego/Linaro/OpenEmbedded/Angstrom/Custom Builds cannot fill the
>>>> requirements of Yocto?  I don't mean that harshly at all - I'm just
>>>> curious about the evolution and true target audiences of these projects.
>>>> It's nice to have choices, but developers should have some idea of the
>>>> differences so they can choose wisely when just starting.
>>>
>>> Richard wrote nice summary[1], it's worth reading and it might answer
>>> your
>>> questions as well :-)
>>>
>>> 1.
>>> http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-devel/2010-November/026598.html
>>>
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>>
>> May we know roughly how many paid resources are behind Yocto?
>>
>> Which arch will be first officially supported? Will it be ATOM as Poky
>> is really part of Intel? Beagle/ARM will be done by the community
>> instead?
>
> I can provide some answers for this part of the query.
>
> In the 0.9 release, we already support the following arches:
>
>  - x86(64), mips, arm and powerpc
>
> These are all based on a 2.6.34 kernel base (with an option
> for 2.6.37-rcX shortly). There are simulated targets for
> each arch, and a hardware reference for each as well
> (for ARM the reference hardware is the beagleboard).
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Bruce
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Xianghua
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>

Will try it on my beagle.
I failed to find info on other hardware reference platform. And I
found 0.9 has an ATOM download as
well(http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/downloads/yocto-0.9/).

Additionally, http://autobuilder.pokylinux.org:8010/ is not working.

Thanks,
Xianghua



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